INDEXity 
2900 ACRES 
1500 Acres in Orchards 
Olarol plantations 
I N CO R PO R AT E D 
A TREE IS A LIVING 
MONUMENT TO THE 
INDUSTRY OF THE 
PLANTER. 
Theodore, Ala. 
OFFICERS: 
JONATHAN BOURNE, JR., PRES & GEN. Mgr. 
ARTHUR H. McCONVILLE, V-P. & SEC'Y 
FRANCES TURNER BOURNE, VlCE-PRES 
ANSON W. PRESCOTT, Treas & SUPT 
Our Nursery Specialties 
GRAFTED PECANS 
BUDDED SATSUMAS 
A HOME IS NOT A 
REAL HOME UNTIL 
IT IS PLANTED. 
THE BEST KIND OF REFORESTATION 
The Older a 
Pecan Orchard 
Becomes, 
the Less Care 
It 
Requires. 
Truck Crops 
were grown 
between the 
trees 
for several 
years. 
I I Year Old Pecan Orchard in Carol Plantations. 
We are this season offering Southern planters the best pecan trees ever produced in our nurseries, and, we think, the best that are to be had any¬ 
where. Our bid for your patronage is based upon quality and value—not primarily upon price. 
It has been the practice of pecan nurseries to sell pecan trees by height, whereas height alone means relatively little. By pushing a tree with strong 
fertilizers we could produce a tall, slender tree of soft wood that we could sell at a low price and make a good profit ourselves, but at a loss to our cus¬ 
tomers. We have never produced that kind of tree. We offer you caliper as well as height, firm wood rather than soft, and branched trees rather than 
mere whips. You do not buy lumber, cloth, iron pipe, rails cr wire by length alone. Pecan trees are about the only commodity the public has been 
accustomed to buy by one dimension measurement. The size of the trunk of a tree is no less important than the height, for it takes time to form a trunk, 
and rho size of the trunk determines to a large deorpe the sap-carrying capac’ty of the tree 
By producing a sturdy tree in the nursery, we save you time ar.d money in developing an orchard. Don’t buy trees by height alone. 
BRANCHED TREES SAVE TIME 
Both experience and observation convince us that a tree should branch about five or six feet from the ground—just high enough to permit culti¬ 
vation without injury to tree branches, and ours have been branched accordingly. This assures the planter a well balanced top which he might not 
get if he planted a "whip" and left it to develop a top afterward. We cull out the trees with unbalanced tops. You can save at least a year in develop¬ 
ment of a tree by planting a tree that has already formed its branch system in the nursery. We do not sell any branched tree with less than four 
branches, for a "Y” fork is almost sure to split and be ruined. Our branched trees have from four to eight or more branches, from two to five feet long. 
When the tree is transplanted these branches should be pruned part wav back, thus helping the root system to become established and forming addi¬ 
tional branches for nut production. 
QUALITY FIRST 
The Papershell Pecan is the acknowledged premier of all nuts. It is richest in food value and flavor and brings the top price in the markets of the 
world. If competition becomes keen, it is quality that counts. 
Soils suitable for pecan tree planting may usually be determined by observation of trees growing in the vicinity. Any soil successfully producing 
seedling pecans or other trees may reasonably be expected to produce grafted papershells. Soil in which the water stands close to the surface is not 
suited to pecans Pecan trees are most commonly planted 60 feet apart, requiring 12 trees per acre. As a pecan tree is a deep rooted tree, truck or 
other crops may be planted between until the trees are large enough to need the space. 
Pecan trees sometimes bear nuts in the nursery, and exceptional trees may bear nuts a year or two after planting, which circumstance has led 
enthusiastic nurserymen to encourage planters to expect almost immediate returns from groves. Frankness requires that we decline to hold out any 
such inducements. As a rule, pecan trees begin to bear about the fourth year after transplanting and with proper care will yield about ten pounds per 
tree at eight or nine years. Like any other long-lived tree, the pecan is not rapid in early development. But this comparatively slow development is 
more than balanced by length of life and by the fact that the older the tree becomes the less attention it requires. 
As pecan growing may be strongly recommended in connection with other farm operations, so it may be even more strongly recommended as a 
feature of every home, I nnumerable instances may be observed of pecan trees planted in back yards, barn yards or poultry runs, where the soil is 
tramped hard all the year but where the pecan trees bear nuts regularly without any application of fertilizer or any care whatever. Those trees afford 
shade and add to the beauty of the home, at the same time that they provide food of a quality which the wealthiest people delight to place upon their 
tables. 
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