hybrid, but I am afraid I shall only be able to use the crop for
spectacle cases.

Mr. Reed: This shows one of the most common methods of propagating the
pecan, the annular system. It is a slight modification of the system Mr.
Rush applies to the propagation of the walnut. This shows one of the
tools designed especially for annular budding, the Galbraith knife. The
rest of the operation you already understand. It is merely placing the
bud in position and wrapping the same as Mr. Rush does.

The Chairman: I would like to ask, does it make a great deal of
difference whether the bud ring is half an inch long or an inch and a
quarter long?

Mr. Rush: It does not make any difference. The union takes place on the
cambium layer. It is not made on the cut.

The Chairman: Then the length of the bud is not of great importance?

Mr. Rush: No, it is of no importance at all.

Mr. Reed: This slide may be a little bit misleading. Two nuts matured in
the nursery on a scion that was inserted in February. The scion was
taken from a mature tree and the fruit buds had already set and had
enough nourishment to carry them through the season so that they
matured. That is no indication of what may be expected in the way of
bearing. It is one of the freaks. This is merely a view of a
fourteen-year old pecan orchard in south-western Georgia, a 700-acre
orchard owned largely by one person. That is the orchard belonging to
Mr. G. M. Bacon, a name probably familiar to some of you. Those trees
are set 46 feet, 8 inches apart, each way. There are twenty trees to the
acre, just beginning to bear now. That photograph was taken some two
years ago showing the first step in topworking. The top has been
removed, as you notice, and the next slide shows the subsequent
water-sprouts which are later budded. The lower branches were left in
the first place to take up the sap while the new head was in formation.
They have now been removed. Our next point might be brought out in
connection with this slide. One of the typical, sub-tropical storms, not
unusual in the Gulf States, swept over this area in September, just as
the nuts were beginning to mature and defoliated the trees and whipped
off the nuts. The sap was still in circulation, and the varieties that
respond most readily to warm weather, that start earliest in the spring,
sent out new leaves, so that foliage was foliage that ought to have come
on the next year, that is, it was exhausting next year's