THE PECAN 
This is by far the choicest table nut that is grown in America, and as it is more 
widely knotvn the demand for it will steadily increase, until the supply cannot equal it 
They are used as a dessert nut wherever they can be had, and large thin-shelled nuts 
always command fancy prices. Confectioners use large quantities of them, and they are 
hulled out whole by machines that turn out tons of whole kernels ready to be used in the 
manufacture of choice candies. They furnish a healthful nutritious article of food 
peculiarly adapted to the building up of thin anaemic people. They produce an oil as 
palatable and more nutritious than the best olive oil. Thus, with the demand for them 
growing each day, the man who plants a Pecan orchard can safely count on a good 
demand and a paying price for an indefinite time to come. 
GRAFTED OR BUDDED vs. SEEDLINGS 
There is no longer any controversy between the adherents of the two plans of 
propagating the Pecan for profit. Those who advocated the planting of seedlings have 
had to yield to the uncontrovertible arguments of those who proved that seedling Pecans 
were no exception to the universal law — that all seedlings are unreliable— and that the 
only way to get the desired qualities of size, thinness of shell, cracking qualities and 
prolificness, was to find the nut that combined these qualities in the highest degree, and 
then bud or graft from that tree. 
VARIETIES 
Besides such old and well-advertised varieties as Frotcher's Eggshell, Columbian, 
Russell and Carman, all of which we carry in stock, we have in middle Florida some 
of the finest Pecan nuts in the world. There are thousands of bearing trees, and out of 
that number we have selected four varieties that we consider worthy of extensive 
propagation. These we have named, as follows: 
ADMIRAL DEWEY. A very large, long, thin-shelled nut, finely flavored, which 
cracks well, and the tree is a prolific bearer. On an exhibit of the nuts of this and 
the next named variety, we were awarded the gold medal and diploma at the Charleston 
Exposition. 
BOLTON. A short, oval nut, large, running forty to the pound ; shell only moder- 
ately thin, but cracks beautifully ; kernel large and plump, flavor very fine, rich and 
oily ; a great favorite. One of the best. 
