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 by Liberty H. Bailey. (2) Trees grown from western Texas seed, latitude 35° 30', longitude 100° W. enduring —20° F, in latitude 39° in northern Virginia, but not ripening seed. (3) Trees from Iowa seed ripening nuts at Lincoln, Nebraska. (4) Pecan trees thriving and ripening seed (rarely) fifteen miles north of Toronto, Canada; also trees from Georgia seed thriving in southern Ontario. (5) Very surprising is a communication from J. U. Gellatly, Westbank, British Columbia (American Nut Journal, April, 1928, p. 65), reporting successful fruiting of good pecans five years after planting in the orchard. This is at an elevation of 1500 fect in the Okanogan Valley. (6) Most remarkable of all, perhaps, is a thrifty pecan tree at Fairhaven, Vermont, latitude 43° north, altitude 530 feet. This tree is the lone survivor of many attempts by Mr. Zenas Ellis, an enthusiastic private experimenter. It blooms, but being alone it does not set fruit. It is very suggestive breeding material.

All these facts go to show that the pecan has great possibilities as a shade tree in a large area where it cannot be a com-