ly solid; flavor sweet, rich, nutty; quality very
good.

Obtained from Chas. E. Pabst, Ocean Springs, Miss. Originated
by and named for B. M. Young, Morgan City, Louisiana.

HYBRID PECANS.

The pecan appears to inter-pollinate freely with some of the other
species of hickory, particularly _H. minima_, _H. laciniosa_ and _H.
alba_. A number of what are believed to be well-marked hybrids of the
pecan with these different species have been found, the most noteworthy
of which, perhaps, are given below:

MCCALLISTER. (Syn.: _Floyd_.) Received from O. L. McCallister,
Mount Vernon, Ind. This is probably a hybrid. It is the largest
nut among all the hickories received at this office. The hull
is about one-fourth of an inch thick when dry, and opens
readily to the base with four valves. Nut 2-1/8 inches long,
1-5/16 inches wide, and 1-1/16 inches thick; base broad,
rounded; apex broad, blunt, angular. In compressed form, in
color of nut, also in the angularity and thickness of shell, it
is quite similar to shellbark hickory. The kernel of a
well-filled specimen is in color, consistency and flavor more
like a shellbark of high quality than a pecan. The tree is
reported to be "so similar to pecan in bark and leaf that it
would be impossible to detect the difference," yet the buds and
young wood more closely resemble shellbark. The tree was found
many years ago on a farm now owned by Mr. McCallister. The nuts
have little pomological value, as grown on the original tree
some years, the kernel being shriveled and not filling more
than one-third of the space within the shell; yet nuts from the
crop of 1893 have been received at the Division of Pomology
which were well filled with a kernel of very pleasant flavor.
Possibly it may become more uniform in maturing fruit in
Mississippi or Texas, where the season is longer than in
Indiana. It is well worth a trial by experimenters in those
States. Sargent gives a short description of this nut under the
name Floyd, and accredits the points of his description to A.
S. Fuller in New York Tribune, weekly edition, July 9th, 1892,
and says it is perhaps a hybrid. (Nut Culture in the United
States, 1896, p. 63-4.)

[Illustration: (_Photo by Dr. Wm. Trelease._)

FIG. 14.

The Nussbaumer Hybrid.]

NUSSBAUMER. In the American Agr