light
colored; tender, oily, rich; good. (Report Sec. Agr., 1893,
296: 1894.)

TURKEY EGG, SR. Large, long, pointed; cracking quality very
good; shell of medium thickness; kernel long, plump;
brownish-yellow; separates readily from the shell; meat yellow,
a little tough; not of highest quality. (Report Sec. Agr.,
1893, 296: 1894.)

TURNER. Medium; elliptical oblong; shell thin; partitions
slightly corky; kernel plump, sweet; quality excellent. G. L.
Taber, Glen St. Mary, Fla. (Hume, Bul. 54, Fla. Exp. Station,
203, 1900.)

VAN DEMAN. (Syn.: _Bourgeois, Duminie Mire, Southern Beauty,
Paragon in part_.) Large to very large, 2-1/8 x 1 x 7/8 inches;
oblong cylindrical; color reddish-brown with splashes and
streaks of purplish-brown; base sloping, blunt-pointed; apex
tapering, sharp-pointed; shell of medium thickness; cracking
quality fine; partitions thick; kernel light brownish-yellow,
sutures rather deeply and narrowly grooved with secondary
sutures forming a mere line; kernel fine grained and compact,
sometimes slack at the end; flavor sweet and delicate; quality
very good.

[Illustration: FIG. 13. Van Deman Pecan.]

Specimens for description obtained of Dr. J. B. Curtis, Orange
Heights, Fla. The original tree of this variety was grown from
a nut planted by the late Duminie Mire, of Union, St. James
Parish, La., in 1836. The tree still stands, thrifty and
vigorous, bearing 200 to 300 pounds of nuts yearly. It was
first widely distributed by the late Col. W. R. Stuart, Ocean
Springs, Miss., who gave it the name Van Deman. Previously, it
had been propagated and distributed locally by the late Emil
Bourgeois.[H]

VALSIES. Reported by Ladd Bros., Stonewall, Miss., and listed
in "Nut Culture in the United States," U. S. Dept. Agr., Div.
Pomology, 1896, 64.

WILLINGHAM. Illustrated in Farm and Ranch, Vol. 23, No. 49,
Dec. 3rd, 1904, p. 1.

YOUNG. Medium to large, 1-5/8 x 1 inches; ovate cylindrical,
rounded at the base; color grayish-brown, splashed with
purplish-brown markings from center to apex; base rounded; apex
sloping rather abruptly, nippled; shell brittle, thin, .76 mm.;
cracking quality very good; partitions thin; kernel full,
plump, slightly wrinkled with broad and shallow sutures;
texture fair