
SBOE 
Cultivation and care will produce a grove like this in a few years 
Pecan Nursery Features 
The success of the orchard is determined by the character of the transplanted tree. A runt in the nursery 
never grows into a giant in the orchard. It ts, therefore, important to begin with the best obtainable nursery 
stock. The following distinctive features characterize our nursery practice. 
1. The stock determines, to a great extent, the vigor and fruit- 
fulness of the future orchard. We have found what seems to be the 
best for this purpose, a budded variety which produces an excep- 
tionally strong and prolific orchard tree. These nuts are used in 
growing stocks for budding purposes. 
2. Our trees are not dug and ‘‘heeled in’’ to await a customer. 
This and other precautions account for the promptness with which 
they generally grow off when carefully transplanted. 
3. While well grown, our nursery trees are not over-stimulated by 
applications of excessive quantities of fertilizers. 
4. To transplant successfully, a Pecan tree should have a good 
lateral root system. Trees grown on sandy soil usually have an 
abnormally large tap-root with few well-developed laterals. Being 
grown on a stiffer soil than that generally used for growing Pecan 
trees, our nursery stock is the equal of any and superior to most. 
5. A tree with an older root than 4 years (most of our trees have 
3-year roots) is never sent out. If a tree hasn’t sufficient vigor by 
that time to be marketable, it is dug up and burned. The setting 
of dwarfish trees with roots 5 to 6 years old accounts for the failure 
of many Pecan orchards. * 
6. The experience of most orchardists is that a budded tree is 
better than a grafted one. In particular it is less subject to winter- 
killing. This being the case, we have entirely discarded grafting. 
The chief reason why many nurserymen still adhere to grafting is 
because a tree can be grown more cheaply by grafting than by budding. 
Our first aim is to produce trees that will give satisfaction 
when transferred to the orchard, and then to sell them at reason- 
able prices. 

6 WIGHT NURSERIES - CAIRO, GEORGIA 
