Soathern Naracry Company, Winchester, Tenn. 
FACTS ABOUT PECAN GROWING. 
Ques. Can I grow good pecans from seedling trees? 
Ans. Most emphatically, you cannot, and it will 
require about ten years to make a failure. 
Ques. How long will I have to wait for grafted trees to 
bear? 
Ans. Frnm three to five years from transplanting; I 
have some th:\t bore well-matnrcd pecans the third year. 
Ques. It is said trees will not bear well if tap-root is cut. 
Is this true? 
Ans. Tlio biggest "fib" ever started. Those grafted from 
the heavy beai'isig varieties lienr so lull until the limbs bend 
and sometimes break un<ler the burden of fruit they take 
on. 
Ques. It is said tlioy are easily blown down If they are 
transplanted. Is this true? 
Ans. "Fib" No. 2 is iis far !"roni the truth as No. 1. The 
tornado of last Seplember stru< k the grove around my home 
when my five-yenr-old trees had on their foliage and a 
good crop of nuts. Houses were blown from their founda- 
tions; the forests near nie were literally torn to pieces; my 
young trees wore bent to tlie grmnid. the leaves beaten into 
shreds and the mits beaten off of tlu-ni — not one of them 
was uprooted. 'I'liey are now blooming nicely and give 
promise of a splendid crop for this year. 
Ques. It is said that grafted trees won't live long. Is 
this true? 
Ans. In answer to "fib" No. ^ I would say that no one 
living is old enousrh to tell. The tirst tree ever grafted of 
which I have any knowledge Is only a few hundred yards 
from where I am sitting. It has borne annually tor a num- 
of years; it is as healthy and as vigorous as it can be and 
looks as though it might live and bear for five hundred 
years — if cared for. 
Ques. Why are grafted Pecan trees sold at a price «o 
much higher than other fruit trees? 
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Ans. The stocks into which they are grafted have to be 
cultivated from two to four years before they are large 
enough. It requires an expert to graft them successfully, 
just as it would to graft an oak or a pine, and there will b« 
a large per cent of faihires, even with the most skilled. On 
these that fail you have spent three to four years' labor 
and get nothing in return. It takes Time, Skill and Money 
to produce them. Where these three elements are necessary 
io order to produce anything, that thing is always dear. 
