Abstract
THE growing importance of the pecan-nut in American commerce has justified the production of this book dealing with the crop in all its aspects. The pecan, Hicoria pecan, is closely allied to the walnut, and now ranks second to the latter in the nut production of the United States. Propagation is not easy, and special attention is devoted to descriptions of the various methods of budding or grafting that it is necessary to employ. An interesting feature is the account of the National Pecan Growers' Exchange, an organisation for marketing the nuts by means of a grower's cooperative non-profit association without capital stock. Such a body tends to raise the standard of the crop owing to its system of careful grading and differential prices. Lax supervision in the earlier years of cultivation favoured the introduction and spread of many insect and fungus pests, which now need to be combated to prevent serious reduction of the nut crops. The volume concludes with a discussion of the food values and descriptive accounts of the many varieties of the pecan.
Pecan-Growing.
H. P.
Stuckey
Prof.
Edwin Jackson
Kyle
By. (The Rural Science Series.) Pp. xiii + 233 + 12 plates. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1925.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Pecan-Growing . Nature 116, 391 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116391b0
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