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LOCKE POTEET NURSERY 
This is our best tree — A Delmas — picture taken in 1926 — this Delinas has 
earned over $100.00 eaeli year since it was 6 years old. 
NUT-BEARING TREES 
PECAN TREES 
For many years we have made the growing of Pecan Trees our hobby. On our place here we have 
a 30-acre test orchard, started more than 20 years ago. The largest tree, a Delmas, has a circumference 
of 54 feet 2 feet above ground and the spread of the limbs is 60 ft. in diameter. As new varieties were 
introduced, we added these and have discarded those varieties that did not prove as good as first ex¬ 
pected, after giving them a fair trial for a period of many years. In discarding a variety we do not always 
grub out the whole tree: if the tree is otherwise healthy and thrifty we top work it to the new variety to 
be tested. Some of these trees have been top-worked several times. At the present time there are about 
twenty-five varieties in this orchard. Ours is a most remarkable pecan grove, the like of which will 
hardly be found anywhere else in the entire pecan belt of the United States, and we have the pleasure to 
welcome many visitors annually from many States who come to see this orchard. 
Close observation of every tree during the many 
years has shown that there is a difference in the 
behavior and qualities of the individual trees within 
the same variety and we are using the wood for 
budding and grafting the trees we offer for sale 
from such trees only that have the best record. 
The soil at Poteet produces an ideal root sys¬ 
tem, not merely a long top root with hut few if any 
