POSITIVE DISTINCTIVENESS 
Will always be seen and observed in the S. R. McKee 
Nurseries & Rose Gardens, South Heights, Jackson- 
ville, Texas. 
My mother said that before I could walk that I 
would crawl out into the yard and build frog houses 
and plant flowers around them, and I have been at it 
constantly ever since. A whole life of close contact 
with NATURE and association with and study of trees, 
plants and flowers. Visitors to these Nurseries fre- 
quently remark that the owner and his trees, plants 
and flowers favor very much, and it is no wonder for 
I have put all of my life-work into their making, in- 
jecting into them my own ideas and ideals which re- 
flects like a mirror. A life-time of growing and know- 
ing trees, plants and flowers. 

SUNSHINE ROSES 
People are coming here almost daily wanting roses 
and we are sold out. So we are determined to put our 
entire ability together and produce something that 
will look like a miracle when we, in just a few weeks 
will be producing wonderful rose plants that can be 
successfully planted every day in the year. Knowing 
roses enables us to do it. 
ENTIRELY DIFFERENT 
Our Sunshine Roses are very different to anything 
else that has been produced and cannot be had else- 
where. They radiate and speak their excellence more 
powerfully than human words can do. It is a great 
pleasure to be able to create them. 

MORE VISUALIZING 
Visualizing will amount to nothing unless there is 
action, and that will be in digging and preparing the 
soil. Then the happy and glorious time of planting 
the things you would most enjoy. What an inspira- 
tion that is bound to make you a better American 
citizen. 

JUST ONE THING 
A whole lifetime of intensely doing just one thing 
of growing trees, plants and flowers. A pig asset in 
KNOWING about them and this knowledge, different 
to money, cannot get away from you. I expect to take 
it with me into eternity where it will be greatly 
magnified. Eternity in a magnificent flower garden. 

LIKE A ROSE 
Dr. Yoakum had the power and ability to graft dis- 
tinctiveness and individuality into trees, plants and 
flowers. First, an idea, then an ideal, and setting 
stakes for accomplishment. I have seen him reach 
many goals that seemed impossidle. It is needless to 
say I was glad to be his pupil. 

POSTED 
The big POSTED signs in our 30-acre Nurseries 
mean that low types and standards of every kind and 
description MUST stay out. 
THE NOBLEST OF THINGS 
Beauty and intelligence; then sweetness and light. 

WINTER 
Beautiful winter with its crisp, kicking, health- 
giving atmosphere, velvet snows and biua skies. A 
glad seascn of the year when Nature is fixing and 
planning how it is going to make and bless the New 
Year. 

NATURE SEEMS DEAD 
But only restfully sleeping, weaving in her dreams 
how she can open the doors of glorious spring in the 
most heart-quickening way. 

DIGGING AND VISUALIZING 
How delightful to dig and visualize on the outcome 
of planting trees, plants, flowers and vegetables. Talk 
about heaven—this is bringing it down to earth. And 
there will be no vacant lots to grow up in weeds. 
BY THEIR FRUITS YOU KNOW THEM 
Two years ago the Texas State Department of Agri- 
culture made some thorough investigations covering 
the nurseries and orchards over the greater part of 
the fruit-growing sections of the state, with a view of 
trying to determine the cause of so many dead and 
dying orchards, and the lack of interest manifested in 
fruit-tree-planting and commercial orcharding. Hun- 
dreds of orchards were visited and inspected in the 
presence of the owners, and they would invariably say 
that the orchards had proven to be unprofitable be- 
cause of so many drones and off-type trees, and that 
they could not afford to give them further care and 
attention. Investigations were then made in the nur- 
series, and it was discovered that not more than 10 
per cent of them maintained experimental and trial 
orchards, or orchards of any kind, from which to se- 
cure their propagating buds and scions, but relied 
altogether on getting them from the nursery stock, 
and in many instances, this practice has been kept up 
for many years. And the result is, the stock has run 
out and is unfit for planting. 
“Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn 
down, and cast into the fire. 
“A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can 
any corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 
“Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” 

GROW A LIVING 
If you do not have the land, it will be no trouble 
to get it for only good care and keeping. What more 
could you ask for. There is ample good, productive 
soil all about us to keep every man, woman and child 
busy. Reward—good living and happiness. 

THINGS PEOPLE WANT 
Look at the trail that has been beaten out leading 
into our Nurseries. 
NONE BETTER THAN THE BEST. 
Our Nursery Stock Is UNEXCELLED. 
