For other candies, roll a piece of the fondant into a ball, flatten it with the fingers and use to cover a whole pecan or English walnut meat.
Place one-half of a toasted marshmallow on the top, and arrange pecan meats and candied cherries in a conventional design.
Sprinkle with salt, arrange on each portion a slice of pineapple, four white cherries, four pecan nuts and one maraschino cherry.
Weschcke(24) reported that shagbark varieties grew well on bitternut but also indicated that a slow growing variety would be stimulated in growth by working on pecan stocks which are more vigorous in growth than the other hickories.
Gossard(9) reported success in producing roots from the tops of small grafted and budded pecan trees by trench layering and from older trees by aerial layering with marcot boxes.
Some pecanvarieties have produced several hundred pounds per tree and the same for black walnuts with hickory, butternut and chestnut in smaller quantities.
The Pecan weevil of the south and the Hickory weevil are identical and we learn the following from the experiments carried out by G.
Use of nurse seedlings in propagating the pecan from stem cuttings.
The situation with the pecan is much better, due perhaps to the greater demand for such trees but also to the greater ease of propagation in general nursery practice.
Mockernut Nut growers are interested primarily in the pecan and the shagbark, although a few selections have been made of the shellbark species.
However, pecan growers who wish to make the effort can time the first application accurately by spreading a sheet on the ground beneath an infested tree and lightly jarring the branches to dislodge the weevils.
Burkett(6) advocated stratifyingpecan seed over winter in moist sand and planting in moist soil in the very early spring.
Brison(5) stated that some nurserymen prefer seed of certain pecan varieties as Riverside and Burkett for rootstock purposes as these produce strong vigorous seedlings.
Watts of Hickman, Kentucky cooperating, interested Mr. Roscoe Stone, who had a large acreage of land in developing the young seedling pecantrees by top-working them to better varieties.
Propagation by Layering No records are available in regard to any hickory species or variety other than pecan having been propagated by any method of either soil or air layering.
Just as the latter was packing, my father came into her room and filled all the space in the top of her trunk with pecan nuts, which some friends had sent him from the South.
The next day, though the weather was of the worst description, he went trudging in great storm-boots back to their house, carrying in one hand a basket of pecan nuts and in the other a toy, which he left for his little sick friends.
Chop pecan meats fine and use twice as many dates as nuts.
Blackburn Green California grapes cut in half and seeded, a little celery cut in dice, pecan nuts cut in halves and a few quartered olives.
Cook in double boiler five minutes; when cold add one cup chopped pecan nuts or blanched almonds, twenty-four chopped marshmallows, two cups whipped cream.
Or add enough flour on rolling board to make a soft dough, cut into large round buns; bake and spread with icing made of hot water and brown sugar cooked until thick with pecan nuts added.
In a few minutes we stopped at the Smith Hotel, a rather large wooden building standing on Congress Avenue and Pecan Street, I think.
Let Mary and Lilly sit up till ten o'clock, then they had pecannuts and home made wine; but Robert and I wanted to watch the New Year in.
There's a pecan at the edge of the bottom with my own blaze on it.
Walking along the gallery until I came to the rear part of the house which faced towards the out-buildings, I spied three figures prone on the grass under a pecan tree that shaded the kitchen roof.
As we rode through the bottom under the pecan trees we talked of Polly Ann, Tom and I, and of our little home by the Salt River far to the southward, where we would live in peace when the campaign was over.
The pecan trees were tall, somewhat like maples, with the nuts growing on them in shucks, after the manner of walnuts.
He had once owned a neighboring lot, and his pecan trees had been fenced around to protect them from the impertinent swine; but now the party were going into the heart of the forest.
The rounded figure below the winter mark is intended to represent a pecan nut.
Chihuahua; "pecan river," so called from the abundance of pecan trees on it.
Hutt on the relation of the hickory stock to the pecan top.
My time has been given to the pecan until this summer, when I worked on the persian walnut to some extent, but I can say, generally, that the black walnut hasn't got any very serious enemies.
I have been fifteen years in the growing of pecan trees in the South, and I am free to confess that the most disturbing element in my life at the present time is the fact that we "have known so many things that weren't true.
Pecan bloom was very fair, crop, generally seems to be light, in fact such is the case with all kinds of nut trees, generally, and most fruit trees.
JONES: You can't judge a pecan by the growth of the tree.
The last I knew they were bearing quite satisfactory crops, but those that were allowed to remain in the standing water died very shortly after the pecan top began to develop.
During the past year I have received photographs and description of the pecan trees 12 miles south of Lincoln, Nebraska, and of two trees on the grounds of E.
I find that thepecan tree starts off nicely under the mulch fertilizer conditions of the apple.
If the month of May is a beautiful, dry, clear month, you can gamble on the pecan crop.
That the pecan tree can attain great size in the North, as well as in the South, is attested by the record of a tree in northern Maryland on Spesutia Island, near the head of Chesapeake Bay.
Pecan buds came through in good shape with a very fair stand in nursery, and one-year trees were not injured a particle.
Pecan orchards are being planted in many regions and hickory nuts are being studied with a view to improving the kernel and reducing the hardness of the shell.
Surely, the boys and girls of the pecan belt do their share.
Tremendous interest has been aroused during the past ten years in pecan growing.
I have a picture of a pecan tree in Georgia, sixteen years old, which is nearly fifty feet high.
The wisest planters have gone to nature to learn what kind of conditions thepecan requires.
Pecan orchards are being planted in all sorts of soil, good, bad, and indifferent.
The poor quality of the wood of the pecanhas saved these native trees from destruction.
Very often in a dry season when there is evidence of sap leaving the pecanstocks earlier than usual and the current season's buds are not well matured, I use the past season's growth until the new growth is mature.
A few years later while hunting in the same river bottoms with a friend named Frank Gildig, he was shown a very fine pecan which now bears the name of the Gildig pecan.
And also the Queens Lake Pecan originated in the same locality.
Several years ago we used quite a few pecan trees of the Moore variety in planting around Tulsa.
Then I place these on a lath frame which is about 12" above the ground under a large pecan tree which furnishes shade about 3/4 of the day.
As a curiosity pecan trees are quite hardy here, but we lack length of season to mature the nuts properly.
Under conditions of dry weather growth stops on the Persian walnut and pecan and when this is followed by a rainy period and warm weather growth begins again.
Before that time a very few propagated pecan trees had been produced in an experimental way by some fruit tree nurserymen.
His Texas pecanand Indiana hickory seedlings, although planted in favorable location, have not made a good growth.
Also a few black walnuts, Japanese heartnuts, Chinese chestnuts, hickories, pecan and several hybrids were planted.
I ordered grafted nut trees from Jones Nurseries, Crath seedlings from Graham and 200 northern pecan nuts from Wilkinson.
Dere was a nice yard with lots of pecan trees and de plantation fields had rail fences aroun' dem.
The pecan is truly a hot weather crop and is not suited for culture under mountainous conditions.
For example, the pecan is native to the southern part of the United States and a small area in northern Mexico.
Examples of diseases that attack the nuts and cause them to be poorly filled at harvest are pecan scab and walnut bacteriosis.
We feel that the future of the pecan industry is undoubtedly headed toward the utilization of pecans as kernels and not nuts in the shell.
It is known now that the native range of pecan did not extend to the present state of South Carolina.
The pecan trees are on the lawn, in the barnyard, and in an adjoining field.
South Carolina produces about 6% of the pecan nuts of improved varieties in the United States and less than 1% of the seedlings.
The pecan is probably more exacting in regard to its climactic requirements than are our other kinds of nuts, but the filbert or hazlenut is probably a close second in this respect.
Insects and Diseases of the Pecan and their Control.
Crane and his assistants, in their work with tung and pecan trees, have shown the vital need for certain elements on some soils.
I don't know whether you know it or not, but the pecan market situation has apparently reached a condition of saturation.
The development of walnuts, hickory nuts, and filberts, so far as is known, is in all essentials the same as that described for the pecan nut except that the kernel or embryo begins to grow somewhat earlier in the season.
Some hickory and pecan nuts were bought and also stored in a similar box.
Most of the pecan nuts in the market come from wild trees in the Mississippi Basin.
But late years have seen great strides taken to establish pecan growing as a paying horticultural enterprise in states outside, as well as within, the tree's natural range.
The pecan tree bears the best nuts in the hickory family.
A gate through an old-fashioned picket fence led into a spacious yard where dense shade from tall pecan trees was particularly inviting after a long walk in the sweltering heat.
One of these latter, the result of my skill, was so effectively pruned that fall by the pecangirdler that my work for the season was a minus quantity in all but experience.
Occasionally in the pecan groves you will find these remarkably white mildewed nuts.
I have in my power the magic by which a worthless seedling pecan tree can be transformed into a productive standard variety.
Of thepecan diseases, the pecan scab is probably the most conspicuous fungus trouble.
The pecan has only three named species in Farlow's Index, but Mr. Rand has got together three times as many I think--I am not sure of the number.
EVANS: Can the pecanbe used as a forage crop for pigs?
The pecan anthracnose looks like the bitter rot, has the same pink spore masses and you will be able to recognize it.
Grafting the hickory on the pecan was of course tried, and this proved one of the best ways of propagating the hickory.
We had a splendid stand of grafts of the Major pecan the past spring and some of these made 4 feet of growth and calipered 3/4-inch, for grafts set May 1st.
When I began my experiments in the top-working of seedling pecan trees I soon found that there were many things one could not do with pecan trees.
The pecan scab is the most typical fungus parasite of the pecan.
I will take you along the banks of the Wabash, the Ohio and Green River, where the pecan trees grow so big that the sun has to go around.
Shaking him cordially by the hand, I said, "Ah, yes; Pecan Nuts!
I presume the Professor will think no change in pecannuts necessary.
Remove from fire and add one cupful of whole pecan meats, and one teaspoonful of vanilla.
The centers of these can be decorated with halves of walnut, pecan or hickory-nut meats.
Decorate the top of each strip with a half of a pecan or hickory-nut meat.
Boil for a few minutes then add one-half cupful of chopped raisins, and one-half cupful of walnut or pecan nut meats.
Add one cupful of pecan or any chopped nut meats, and pour into buttered pans.
Large prunes soaked over night until plump, and then stuffed with chopped almonds or pecan nut meats are fine.
Stir until thick and smooth, then stir in one-half cupful of finely chopped hickory or pecannut meats.
NUT LOAF Take an equal quantity of walnut, hickory-nut, almond andpecan meats and chop fine.
Keep hot over hot water until ready to serve, then add 1/3 cup pecan nut meats.
Fill center of sponge cake box with charlotte mixture and serve with maple pecan sauce.
The pecan has become one of the leading nuts of this country by rapid but natural processes.
Some have invested in pecan lands in the Far South; no doubt some own Persian (English) walnut, almond or filbert orchards on the Pacific Coast; and others are at the point of planting nut trees in Michigan.
The following standards for pecans have been established (including the pecan x shellbark hybrids which generally resemble pecans in flavor and appearance and would be classed with them).
He never found young pecan trees growing in the woods but did find them growing in large numbers on the levees and on the edges of cultivated fields.
The hickory will grow on the pecan very well, the shagbark hickory, but it will not do to change it with any degree of success.
In its further behalf may be said that like the pecan it is one of America's most rapid growing valuable trees.
The reason for that is because some of the other hickories stand quite as high as the pecan in food value and general excellence.
These are of such importance to the practical pecan grower as to overbalance to quite an extent the merits of the nut itself which are the only qualities that can be considered in a nut contest.
At Stamford, the bitter pecan from Texas, appears to be perfectly hardy but it makes very slow growth--sometimes less than an inch in a year.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pecan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; nut; oak; tree; wood
