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tive slowness of the precesses as com¬ 
pared with the simpler propagation of 
peaches and plums oranges etc., the trees 
must necessarily sell at a price which al¬ 
lows a margin to cover great losses in 
budding and grafting from unfavorable 
weather such as droughts or excessive 
rains, another consideration the cost of 
grafting and budwood, which is a sacri¬ 
fice of nuts from choice bearing trees by 
the cutting therefrom of scions or bud¬ 
ding wood. Again the disfigurement of 
seedling trees where buds or grafts fail 
to take the first season. 
DISAPPOINTMENT. 
There will be many disappointments in 
Pecans to those who have planted the 
“cheapest’’ trees they could buy without 
investigating source of variety of trees or 
reliability of party who follows the busi¬ 
ness of selling them. 
Now is it not very plain to all that it 
is folly for anyone to risk the use of land 
for years expense of cultivating etc., to 
save a few cents on a tree, when for a 
trifling increase in the price he can get 
the very best warranted stock ? 
Most of the worthless stock is worked 
off by strange agents, who sell on their 
own account and are not authorized by 
any responsible firm to take orders for 
them. Such men buy up refused stock 
from large nurseries for almost nothing 
and fill their orders with it claiming it to 
be good. They also frequently warrant 
the stock, but as they the unknown or ir¬ 
responsible, their warranty is absolutely 
worthless. If people would consider this 
fact, and buy only from agents who can 
show a certificate authorizing them to rep- 
resent a respKDnsible firm, there would be 
less danger of being cheated. 
Our attention has been called to cer¬ 
tain tree peddlers in this State buying 
seedling Pecan trees that had been graf¬ 
ted but grafts having failed to take new 
sprouts would naturally come out and 
make a nice healthy top; such trees being 
worth about ten to twenty cents, have 
been sold for grafted stock at $1.00 to 
$1.50 each. 
It will be heart-breaking to those who 
have planted such trees relying upon them 
to support them in their old age to find 
they have been cheated and swindled and 
all hope of rest and peace in their declin¬ 
ing years vanished. Men will die and 
leave “Pecan Groves” of this kind to their 
widows and children—with what result ? 
hogg’s monument 
The accompanying clipping from the 
daily press dispatches is very significant 
and means much, not only for Texas, but 
for the entire country. It shows an ap¬ 
preciation of the value of nut trees by a 
prominent man who had the welfare of 
the masses at heart and who chose the 
time of his departure from earth to im¬ 
press the injunction upon his family and, 
through them, on the public at large. 
“I want no monument of stone,” 
he said, “but let my children plant at the 
head of my grave a pecan tree and at the 
foot of my grave a walnut tree, and when 
these trees shall bear let the pecans and 
the walnuts be given out among the plain 
people of Texas, so that they may plant 
them and make Texas a land of trees.” 
Such a monument will not only perpet¬ 
uate the memory of Gov. Hogg—^gener¬ 
ations to come will share in the beneficial 
results which will follow the stimulus thus 
given to the nut growing industry, which 
is only now beginning to attract the at- 
