AconsT 21, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



47 



rtuiiity of a Lifetime 



A five-year-old Paper Shell Pecan Orchard, owned by W. T. Jackson, atBaconton, Oa., valued at 12000.00 per acre tblB year. 



Photographed July 17, 1913. 



LARGE SUMS INVESTED IN PECANS IN THE ALBANY DISTRICT, GEORGIA 



The most extensive commercial pecan development being recorded is in Southern Georgia, in 

 what has become widely known as the Albany district. 



The peculiarly adapted soil, ample rainfall, acceptable climate, and successful bearing groves 

 have caused hundreds of thousands of dollars to be invested in pecan orchards in the Albany district. 



INCOME UNLIMITED 



HARRY U. JACKSON, who is owner of a seven year old grove at Baconton, had an income 

 last year of $300.00 AN ACRE. This year his income will be considerably more. 



THE JACKSON GROVES are private groves, PLANTED AND CARED FOR under the 

 personal supervision of Mr. C. C. Batey, HORTICULTURIST of the JACKSON PECAN 

 GROVES CO., who up to the present date has no equal in the culture of budded Pecan trees. 

 Each five acre tract contains five of the leading varieties, namely, SCHLEY, MOBILE, STUART, 

 TECHE, and FROTCHER or. VAN DEMAN. 



THE REASON for the sale of these privately planted groves is the closing of the estate of 

 the JACKSON BROTHERS and Mr. C. C. Batey, of Baconton, Georgia. 



Jackson Brothers, owners of these groves, are bankers, merchants, and owners of several thou- 

 sand acres of cotton land at Baconton, Georgia. They are absolutely responsible and give a Bond 

 for Deed with every contract of purchase ; the bond also guaranteeing specific performance of each 

 clause of the contract as to the care and development. 



COMPETITION ON WALNUTS BUT NOT ON PECANS 



The importations of Pecans from Mexico for 1911 were valued at only $158,312. The U. S. produced about 

 15,000,000 lbs., chiefly from the wild trees of the Southern States. There is no foreign competition; on the 

 other hand we have the whole world for a market and will begin to export pecans as soon as we have a surplus 

 at home. "The pecan is wholly an American species (of the same family as the hickories, the walnuts and the 

 butternuts), found only in certain parts of the United States and Mexico." — Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin No. 

 251, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



HIGH PRICES WILL CONTINUE 



The price of the best varieties of paper shell pecans in the retail stores of Chicago averages $1.00 per 

 pound and has for a number of years. The price to the producer at Baconton, Ga., last year, for "Schley" and 

 "Mobile" Pecans averaged 80c per pound. It is the consensus of opinion among owners of groves and experts 

 in nut-culture that the price for choice pecans will not drop to less than 40c per pound to the grower within the 

 next 25 years, probably during the present century, as it is estimated that we are not now supplying one per cent of 

 the demaii dj;^;- Qn 4tccount o^^ifee thinness of shells^jsuperiof keeping qualities and fine flavor, pap^r shell pecans 

 are actually WofHi'two or tEree tiiues "aa riiucTi as'otner nuts." The price of all nuts is advancing. 



Why not investigate this wonderful income producing proposition? It will cost |y^^''h6thing to get full 

 information. 



Address L. A. TONNER, Special Agent 



Jackson Pecan Groves Company 



Room 424, 29 South LaSalle St., CHICAGO 



