CATALOGUE SOUTHERN NURSERIES. 
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Nut Trees 
ALMONDS. 
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Princesa and Sultana — Both are prolific, soft-shellcd and very good. These are the varieties mostly cuitivated 
In Europe, and produce tlie bullc of tlie almonds of com merce. 
CHESTNUTS. 
American Sweet — The common variety that flourishes 
In our mountains. 
L.arge Spanish— Yields very large nuts, not as sweet 
as the American, but thetr sfze and beautiful appearance 
command a ready sale. 
Japan Giant — Remarkable for Its great size and fine 
flavor, in those respects being superior to the European 
varieties. The tree is similar in habit of growth to the 
Italian Chestnut. It is a handsome, sturdy, healthy tree 
— one of the most useful that can h*» grown. It grows In 
northern Japan, and has proved sufficiently hardy almost 
anywhere In the United States. Many people are deterred 
from planting nut-bearing trees by the thought that IG 
or 16 years must elapse before bringing the tree into 
bearing condition, while in fact the Japan Mammoth 
Chestnut tree bears fruit at 3 or 4 years of age. The 
size of the nut is remarkable, some of them weighing 1% 
ounces. No not tree in cultivation promises to be more 
remunerative. 
Japan (jlnnt Che(«tuut 
WALNUTS. 
California Paper Shell — A variety of the English walnut, or Madeira nut, bearing an oblong shaped nut, with 
a very tender shell, well filled with a rich kernel. 
Japan — Produces in abundance nuts larger than the common hickory, which are borne In clusters of from 15 
to 20. The meat Is sweet, of the very best quality. Leaves enormous size, of a beautiful shade of green, making 
a very handsome tree. 
Back Walnut — Our native species. The Black "Walnut Is planted for its timber possibilities, the wood being 
very valuable. There have been many waste pieces of ground thus put into growing timber that will be found 
very profitable, and the fruit also affords a source of Income before the timber is available. 
PECANS. 
Pecan culture is rapidly increasing throughout the Soutli, there being few trees that yield as 
regular and large an income after they attain the bearing age. Any good pine land, or land where 
hicltory grows, is suitable for the Pecan, but it does best and produces larger crops when planted in 
the rich alluvial soils. It is a well-known fact that both the quality and the quantity of both nuts 
and fruits are increased by cultivation, and the Pecan is no exception. Here we have a tree which 
is of beautiful shape, symmetrical, rapid growth, with luxuriant green foliage, which it retains late 
In the fall, rendering it a very conspicuous and attractive shade tree, producing in great abundance 
smooth, oblong, thin-shelled nuts with sweet and delicious kernels. 
Owing to the difficulty in grafting or budding the Pecan, and the necessarily high price of the 
budded or grafted trees, and the fact that the sub-varieties, of which there are many, reproduce 
themselves at the rate of 60 to 70 per cent, thus showing a small variation from the seed planted, 
we offer seedling trees raised from the largest select paper-shell nuts obtainable. Our cu.stomers 
can therefore rely on these trees producing a large proportion of superior nuts. 
Grafted and Budded Pecans — We also grow grafted and budded Pecans, the scions or buds 
for which were taken from trees producing very choice soft-shell nuts. The Pecan, when budded 
or grafted from bearing trees, comes into bearing the second or third year from planting, trees 
having been known to produce fruit in the nursery the first year. You have a certainty of get- 
ting nothing but choice nuts, which makes the trees well worth the difference in price. 
