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lateral or side roots, neither the other extreme, a 
fibrous mass of week roots. Such trees are at a 
great disadvantage if planted in heavy soils. Trees 
with roots of the type like our pecan trees can stand 
the shock of transplanting easily. We planted an 
orchard of more than 1000 trees for a customer in a 
locality where former attempts to establish commer¬ 
cial and home plantings of pecans had been more 
or less a failure. Of these trees furnished and 
planted by us only one tree failed to sprout. To fill 
an order for some extra large budded pecan trees 
one surplus 8-year-old tree was left behind after 
digging. Being late of the day, the roots were 
hastily covered with dirt and in the rush of the 
shipping season the tree was forgotten. By the 
end of June we decided to discard it, but gave it to 
a neighbor to try his luck with it. He planted it in 
his orchard and within 2 weeks this tree sprouted 
and has made good growth since. (The day he 
planted it was a Friday and it was in the dark of 
the moon.) We do not recommend that you plant 
your orchard in July, we only want to emphasize by 
this example that by planting our Poteet Grown 
trees you will be assured the most success. 
The purchaser of pecan trees certainly loses 
sight of one of the most important points in select¬ 
ing the proper trees for the future success of his 
plantings, if he thinks a big root and straight trunk 
are the only indications of a good tree. The smooth¬ 
ness and straightness of the trunk of a pecan tree 
is not the only point to be considered when buying 
trees. The straightest tree may later prove the 
poorest grower and bearer. Trees grown from 
nuts gathered at random in the swamps of East 
Texas, and States farther East, simply will not be 
satisfactory, especially if set out in the dry and 
limy soils of the Western and Northern sections of 
the pecan belt and in Mexico, no matter what 
variety has been grafted on such trees. 
We are as careful in selecting our root stocks 
as we are in selecting our budwood. Years of ex¬ 
perience has taught us what stocks to select as 
foundation for our trees, not only to make them 
thrifty-looking trees while under our care in the 
nursery row, but to make them give maximum 
results after they are sent out and during their 
whole life. 
Our pecan trees are well adapted for planting 
in localities with extremes of climate such as in 
the West as well as in the more favorable sections 
of the State. We have furnished trees for some of 
the largest pecan plantings of Old Mexico. 
The trees grown by us are not stunted by 
drought, we are prepared to irrigate when needed. 
PECAN VARIETIES 
Varieties listed below are the most important 
and dependable for commercial and for home plant¬ 
ings. It should be of interest to the man who con¬ 
templates to go into the planting of pecans on a 
larger scale, that for commercial production there 
are hardly ever more than 4 or 6 varieties to the 
most that are really suitable in a given locality: the 
preference of certain varieties will, of course, vary 
in different localities. A variety may be regarded 
the best in one place and in another may he the 
sixth choice. We invite you to consult us on 
this and other important matters in regard to pecan 
plantings, large or small. We want to keep our 
customers from making costly mistakes. 
EASTERN VARIETIES 
Bradley —A prize winner : very rich ; shell thin; 
bears early and very prolific. 
Curtis —Earliest and most prolific bearer; thin 
shell; rich quality. 
Delmas —Of this famous variety we have a 
superior strain. The original tree is a very regular 
bearer, very prolific and a robust grower. We find 
the nut from this tree larger than from other trees 
of the regular Delmas. We are taking the bud wood 
for all the Delmas trees we are offering from this 
one tree. If you intend to plant pecan trees for 
shade, plant Delmas, it grows dense and round in 
shape and the leaves are large. The Delmas scores 
very high on all points of a good pecan, the nut is 
large, slightly elongated, usually well filled at both 
ends, fine flavor. 
Moneymaker —Medium size nut, filling out well, 
good bearer, early maturing; the tree is healthy 
and clean looking. 
Eastern Schley —This is the finest nut of them 
all: it has all of the redeeming qualities but one: 
it is large, soft shell, well filled, sweet but the tree 
does not bear as regularly as some of the other 
varieties; we get a better price for the nuts than 
we do for any other. 
Stuart —(Mississippi)—Perhaps the best known; 
large, elongated, medium shell; good quality, fairly 
productive. 
Success —(Mississippi)—Large, extra quality, 
very desirable. 
TEXAS OR WESTERN VARIETIES 
OF PECANS 
Burkett —(Callahan County)—Large, almost 
round, shell thin; flavor excellent, the whole meat 
coming out very readily; one of the best; bears 
young and every year, fine; makes a beautiful 
shade tree. 
Halbert —Almost round, medium size; flavor 
highest; perhaps the youngest bearer known; 
prolific; an all-round pecan; very thin shell, shell¬ 
ing out readily; it is an excellent pollenizer for 
other varieties. 
Onliwon —About the thinnest shell of them all: 
this is a round nut, pointed end, well filled, medium 
to large in size, and we find it a very good bearer. 
Texas Prolific —This surely is named right; 
Texas for size; and it is prolific indeed; we are 
planting extensively in our own orchards of this 
variety. Large, rather long; thin shell, fine kernel; 
bears young; heavy and sure bearer. 
San Saba Improved —This variety is becoming 
very popular; tree healthy and unusually prolific, 
but is somewhat subject to scab; the nut ripens 
rather early; the kernels are light in color, bright 
and smooth, and of the highest quality; they re¬ 
lease perfectly from the shell; this is really one of 
the best of all pecans and has won many blue 
ribbons. 
Squirrels Delight —Another of the very early 
ripening sorts; really the first good seller on the 
market, showy and large nut; the foliage is re- 
