JNO. W. TISDALE, Mayor 
J. W. MAXEY, Clerk 
TOWN OF CLARKSVILLE 
MAYOR’S OFFICE 
Clarksville, Virginia 
August 23, 1939 
Bass Pecan Company 
Lumberton, Miss. 
Gentlemen: 
Bass Pecan Trees are worthy of the very highest recommendation. The first so 
called Improved Pecan Trees planted in this section were planted on a farm near 
Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, in the year 1911. These trees are now 
from three to five inches in diameter at the ground. I think there are about fifteen 
trees in the grove. Several of these trees have never borne a nut. Several bear nuts 
about the same size of the pecans borne on trees in this section planted before the 
Revolution. The other trees bear a few fair size nuts from time to time. 
The results of the planting caused the people in this section. Southern Piedmont 
Virginia, to reach the conclusion that this section was too far north to grow Improved 
Bred-Up Pecans. 
In the year 1918 I ordered several pecan trees from Bass Pecan Company of 
Lumberton, Miss., to be planted purely as an experiment. At the time I was advised 
by friends that it would be better to throw the price of the trees in Roanoke River. 
That Improved Pecans could not be grown this far north; that the trees would not 
bear, and that the nuts could not mature before frost. 
The trees were duly received and I was amazed at the wonderful root system. 
These trees, planted on average land, are 8 to 10 inches in diameter; are heavy 
bearers of nuts fully as large as the best nuts shipped from the Southern States, and 
of excellent quality. 
Bass Pecan Trees have convinced the people in this section that Improved 
Bred-Up Pecans can be successfully grown in this section. 
I have ordered and planted Bass Pecan Trees nearly every year since 1918, and 
have always found Bass Pecan Trees to be of the same high quality. They are inher¬ 
ently early bearers, many of my trees produced a few nuts the second year after they 
were planted. They are vigorous growers, and all of the nuts are fully matured 
before frost. 
Many people in this section have planted Bass Pecan Trees and without a single 
exception are highly pleased. 
I have yet to see the first Bass Pecan Tree that was not everything and more than 
claimed for it by Bass Pecan Company. 
Very truly yours, 
(Signed) Jno. W. Tisdale 
JWT: AW 
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