If They’re Bass Trees . . . They’ll Produce. 
You Cam Retire 
Early in Life 
With Trees Like These 
A Bass bred-up tree, less 
than three feet high, al¬ 
ready bearing pecans. 
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W ITH healthy, thrifty trees, bred-up from early and 
heavy bearing parents, with our experience in selec¬ 
tion and inspection, with the matured root systems—all of 
which roots are dug up—and our proper packing and ship¬ 
ping, we know what our trees can do for you. We know, 
too, what they have done for others. With such fine trees 
as we will ship you, you can rest assured of production in 
possibly the third year, if not before, and a vigorous growth 
and increasing yield, if the trees are properly cared for. 
Then you can depend on a steadily growing income, and, 
in time, with a grove of these fine trees you will be able to 
retire, as others have done. 
Healthy, Hardy Trees With 
Vigorous Root Systems 
Y OU are definitely assured well-developed roots, good, 
strong, straight trunks and pedigreed stock. 
Thousands of our pecan trees bear even in our Nursery 
before they are three feet high. This typical Bass bred-up 
tree (see illustration) growing vigorously in our Nursery 
has a heavy foliage, a healthy look, and is even bearing 
nuts. Note the root system—a good hardy tap root with a 
fine spread of lateral roots. Furthermore, zve do not charge 
you for the roots, as some do. Our trees are all measured 
from the ground up instead of from the tip of the tap root 
to the top of the tree. Our three-to-four-foot trees, there¬ 
fore, are often as large as others’ “five-to-six-foot trees.” 
You pay us for a smaller sized tree, you see! See reference 
to pruning. Page 20 
If the root is neg¬ 
lected, what springs 
from it cannot be 
in good condition.— W 
Chinese Proverb. 
One of our three-year-old trees 
heavily loaded with blooms! 
WARN I N G! 
For your sake, beware of the nurseryman who calls at your door 
with a truckload of pecan trees for sale and offers to plant them 
for you. Sun and wind quickly dry out roots, and trees in trucks, 
unprotected, also previously half dug and poorly packed, are 
often dead before they are set in the ground. Don’t lose that 
money and the time in waiting for them to grow. 
Ask that traveling agent if he will make the same written 
guarantee that we do (see pages 16, 17) ; then ask yourself if there 
is a firm back of him that will make the guarantee good. Suppose 
the guarantee is made good, what about the five years you have 
wasted to learn your mistake and what insurance have you that 
the new trees will be any better? Why take the chance? 
‘1 thank yon most kindly for your promptness and for the fine specimen of trees shipped me. 
root system on all of them was wonderful.” BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 
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