"Walnut Hill," Cincinnati, Ohio, writes: "I think the flavor of the pecan nut, far superior to that of our English walnut. The only defect is the small size, and extra trouble in getting the pecan meat from the shell. What an immense stride in improvement would be made if we could get a pecan as large as a walnut! As almost all fruits can be improved by selection, I want to suggest to improvers of fruits, nuts, etc, whether it would not be worth their while to take the pecan in hand, with the view, in time, of getting a nut as large as a walnut?"

[No doubt improvers will be thankful for the hint, but still more thankful if "Walnut Hill" would undertake the improvement by selection himself. There is no doubt, as he says, that selection would give much larger and better nuts, and there is no doubt an immense fortune for him in the success of the experiment, provided he lives long enough to fruit some half dozen generations of pecan nut trees. Each seedling pecan tree is about fifteen years in coming into bearing, so that he can communicate to our magazine the results of his sixth selection in the 100th volume of our magazine. - Ed. G. M].