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MONEYMAKER.— One of the best early 

 varieties. It combines early maturity and 

 heavy production. Nuts uniform in size. 



SCHLEY. — Nut medium in size. Oblong- 

 ovoid in shape. Smooth, clean and bright 

 in color. Very thin shell. Kernel very 

 plump, sweet and rich. Bears abundantly; 

 of rapid growth. Comes early into bearing. 

 This is also a popular variety. 



STUART. — Nut large, thin shell, ovoid 

 in shape, full meated. Quality best. Abun- 

 dant bearer, of rapid growth. A standard 

 variety, of established merit and popular. 



THE PROPER DISTANCE APART TO 

 PLANT PECAN TREES. 



In deep, alluvial soils, 70 feet apart 

 each way, requiring 9 trees to an acre. 



In sandy, poor soils, 50 feet apart each 

 way; requiring 16 trees to an acre. 



Our Trees are very fine and true to kind 

 and variety. Seed nuts of the above pecans, 

 $1.25 per pound, postpaid. Steckler's 

 Mammoth Pecan Nuts, $1.50 per pound, 

 postpaid. Small seedling pecans to grow 

 stock to bud or graft on, at 30c. per 

 pound, postpaid. Buds or grafts of any of 

 the above pecans at $3.00 per 100 or $20.00 

 per 1,000 one eye per bud. Buds or Grafts 

 of Steckler's and Nelson's Mammoth at 

 $5.00 per hundred. The buds are made in 

 July and August. Grafts are made in 

 January, up to March. 



THE JONES PATCH BUDDER.— Made 

 of aluminum, machined perfectly true and 

 nicely finished. The blades are made from 

 safety razor blade steel, but of heavier 

 stock. With full directions for budding 

 Nut Trees, handling the buds, preparing 

 waxed muslin, etc. 



Its use is as simple as cutting biscuits, 

 and it can be used on any stocks from the 

 size of a lead pencil up. 



Price with full instructions, $1.75 each, 

 postpaid. 



Lion Brand Grafting* Wax, best quality, 

 l 4 lb., 25c; lb., 80c. postpaid. 



SQUIRREL NUT CRACKER.— This is 

 the easiest, simplest and the best nut 

 cracker made. Used the world over for 

 home use. Price, $1.25 each; postpaid. 



PERFECTION PECAN AND NUT 

 CRACKER. — Fasten to a table, desk, chair, 

 or any convenient place, placing the nut 

 in the fixed pocket with one hand, give 

 sharp tap with finger of other hand on end 

 of the handle bar, causing movable head 

 to tighten quickly against nut; as it begins 

 to crack give handle a quick turn forward, 

 the shell bursts immediately at the center, 

 loosening the meat so as to be easily re- 

 moved unbroken. A few trials will show 

 you just what pressure is necessary and 

 enable you to crack nuts perfectly. Price, 

 $2.35 postpaid. 



Same as above, used by hand only, $2.25 

 postpaid. 



THE GREAT GRIP NUT SHELLER.— 



A perfect sheller with a light spring ac- 

 tion that works easier than a ticket 

 punch — that squeezes just so far and no 

 farther, and compels a neat, workmanlike 

 job — that opens the shell ten times more 

 scientifically than any other device. Price, 

 $1.50; postage 10c. extra, in this superb 

 finish, and at $5.00 by express only, for 

 the de luxe silver finish in the specially 

 designed art case to match. 



Almonds. 



PRINCESS AND SULTANA ALMONDS. 



These are the varieties mostly cultivated 

 in Europe, and produce the bulk of the 

 Almonds of commerce $1.00 each, soft 

 shell; large size, $1.75. 



Chestnuts. 



THE JAPANESE MAMMOTH CHEST- 

 NUT (Castanea versa var. Japonica). — Our 



climate and soil seems to be well adapted 

 for all varieties of Japanese fruit trees. 

 There are several fine Japanese trees in 

 this vicinity grown from seed, some of 

 which bore for the first time several years 

 ago, and have borne abundantly every year 

 since then. $1.00 each. 



Walnut Trees. 



ENGLISH WALNUTS.— $1.00 per tree. 



JAPANESE WALNUTS Jaglans Japon- 

 ica Cordiformis. — Another variety of Japan- 

 ese fruit, the trees of which will bear here 

 as well as the above mentioned Chestnut. 

 The fruit is nearly the size of the English 

 Walnut, heart-shaped, and, although hard 

 shelled, is very easy to open. $1.00 each. 



Grapes. 



Grapes of the Muscadine group are 

 native to the South, and are well adapted 

 to the soil and climate. When compared 

 with the Bunch Grapes, the fruit-clusters 

 are small, but the fruit is fine flavored and 

 valuable as a table Grape, for making 

 unfermented grapejuice, preserves, jellies 

 and wines. In Virginia and North Carolina 

 they are extensively grown for wine mak- 

 ing. 



Muscadine vines are long lived, reaching 

 a healthy, vigorous old age. They should 

 be planted 15 to 25 feet apart each way. 

 The usual plan is to allow them to run on 

 an overhead trellis, 6% to 7 feet from the 

 ground. The posts should be heart pine, 

 cypress or cedar. The trellis may be made 

 of wood and wire, or of wood alone. 



SCUPPERNONG.— The Bronze Scupper- 

 nong Grapes are natives of the South, and 

 bear well here. The vines should not be 

 trimmed. 1 year old 35c. each; 3 year old. 

 75c. each. 



DELAWARE. — Berries small, reddish or 

 pink, skin very thin; pulp sweet, juicy, 

 vinous; quality best. Bunches medium 

 Price, 25c. each; $2.50 per dozen. 



GOETHE. — Light pink, very fine for table 

 use. It is the best of the Rogers' hybrids. 

 Price, 25c. each; $2.50 per dozen. 



NIAGARA. — The bunches are large, 

 transparent white, very sweet and delicious 

 in flavor. Price, 25c. each; $2.50 per dozen. 



TRIUMPH. — Melting pulp, small seeds, 

 vigorous as Concord, of which it is a 

 hybrid seedling. Rarely it rots; stands 

 pre-eminently at the head as a late table 

 grape. Price, 25c. each; $2.50 per dozen. 



IVES. — Berries small, skin red or pink, 

 very thin; juicy, sweet, vinous; quality ex- 

 cellent. Bunches medium. Ripens July. 

 One of the best in the South. Price, 25c. 

 each; $2.50 per dozen. 



MOORE'S EARLY. — Large size and very 

 early, good for table use. Price, 25c. each; 

 $2.50 per dozen. 



NORTON'S VIRGINIA — An unfailing 

 never rotting red grape of fine quality 

 Price, 25c. each; $2.50 per dozen. 



CAMPBELL'S EARLY.— A new, very 

 large and fine early grape; black. Strong, 

 vigorous, hardy vine with thick, healthy 

 leaves; clusters very large, usually 

 shouldered, compact and handsome; berries 

 large, nearly round, black, rich, sweet. 50c. 

 each. 



