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 mercial dependence, but may produce an occasional crop, is a beautiful and majestic shade tree, with alluring possibilities through hybridization.

Another piece of pecan mythology is to the effect that the pecan is limited not only to the Cotton Belt but to alluvial soil. Most people east of the Mississippi believed this in 1910. Perhaps this piece of mythology spread eastward from the West. It is true in the southwestern pecan country because in many parts of Kansas and Oklahoma and Texas natural tree growth is limited to the valleys, beautifully pecan-bowered valleys reaching back with their long ribbons of green through the upland pastures of the hills yellow and brown with drought.

There was small reason for the people east of the Mississippi to believe the alluvium myth.

Mr. J. B. Garrett. Assistant Director in charge, North Louisiana Station, Louisiana State University, wrote me. July 1913: