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430. ARBORICULTURE, Pecan.—

The
pecan nut is, as you conjecture, the Illinois
nut. The former is the vulgar name south
of the Potomac, as also with the Indians and
Spaniards, and enters also into the botanical
name which is Juglano Pacon.
To Francis Hopkinson. Washington ed. ii, 74.
(P. 1786)