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TENNESSEE NURSERY CO., CLEVELAND, TENN. 
ABOUT PEDIGREED TREES 
Some nurserymen are making considerable noise and asking a considerably advanced 
price for pedigreed trees. What are pedigreed trees? They are trees that are grown from 
the buds or scions of bearing trees, and are grown from select strains which have been grown 
from trees that have proven that they are fine of their sort. That is simply what we have been 
doing for a number of years, as our Lake Rainbow Farm is devoted to growing and testing trees 
so that we can get scions and buds from the trees that we find deserve merit. 
Our trees may be called more than pedigreed because we have tested them ourselves as 
to fruit, manner of growth, shipping and keeping qualities, their resistance to drouths, frosts, 
etc. Our trees should naturally be superior to others because their ancestors have been grown 
in this ideal central mountain climate. We are offering you pedigreed trees for one-half what 
other nurserymen are asking. You get the benefit of the large vloume of our business, as we 
only figure a small profit on each order; and the reason why we are able to let you have pedi- 
greed stock so cheap is due to the large number of orders that we fill each year. 
The growing and selling of nursery stock will probably be our lifetime work, and it is our 
purpose not to see how many orders we can fill to-day with just anything, so it is a peach tree 
or an apple tree, regardless of how grown or the variety ordered, but to furnish good stock, 
properly grown and true to name, so that we may merit your order, and your neighbor's orders, 
in the future. We have built up this large business of ours by fair treatment, sending our cus- 
tomers clean, healthy, up-to-grade and true-to-name stock, and to illustrate the point of send- 
ing first-class, true-to-name stock to our customers, you will find a copy of a letter received by 
us from a near neighbor of Mr. J. C. Muddy, of New Market. Mr. Muddy purchased from us 
in 1905 a large number of peach trees, and they proved true to name, grew well, and have made 
one of the finest peach orchards in his county. W. A. Cate & Bro., whose letter appears else- 
where, saw Mr. Muddy's trees planted and bearing fruit. After seeing the quality of the 
trees of this neighbor, they wrote us. We sold W. A. Cate & Bro. the trees, and credit their 
order as also half the orders we receive each year, to our fair treatment, sending stock true to 
name, up to grade, clean and healthy, and first class in every respect, to our customers. 
It will be our constant study in the future, as it has been in the past, to give perfect satis- 
faction to our old as well as to our new customers who entrust their orders with us. Our 
success, we feel confident, depends wholly on the satisfaction we may be able to give our 
patrons. 
W. A. CATE & BRO. 
General Merchandise, Groceries and Produce. 
Jefferson County, Sept. 10, 1910. 
Gentlemen: We want 1000 peach trees for our own use, 2 or 3 ft. We have prices from 
other nursery companies, but we want your trees because our neighbor Muddy planted your 
trees, and they proved true to name. We handled his fruit and it was better than the other 
peaches in this county. We get better prices for the peaches from Mr. Muddy's orchard than 
we can for any other grower's, and we suppose it is the fine quality of your stock. Let us have 
your best price. 
Respectfully, 
(Signed) W. A. CATE & BRO. 
Northumberland County, Nov. 28, 1911. 
Dear Sirs: The trees arrived and must say that they had a fine root system and were fine, 
fresh and healthy. Please forward Elbcrta peach trees. 
(Signed) L. FRANK RISSEL. 
