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Above picture shows the con- 
dition of the roots of an ordi- 
nary peach tré® severely infest- 
ed by Nematodes. This tree 
was grown by U. S. Department 
of Agriculture in experiments at 
Ft. Valley, Ga. 
of. 
“Good Blood at Both 
Ends of the Tree!”’ 
These peach trees have never 
before been available to orchard- 
ists in this territory that we know 
Only GRAYWAY offers you 
varieties budded on Shalil and 
Yunnan, two 
resistant rootstocks imported by 
U. S. Government from China. 














Above picture shows the roots 
of a peach tree budded on Nem- 
atode-Resistant Root-stock. Both 
trees were grown by government 
experts at Fort Valley, Ga., in the 
same soil at the same time. 
the nematode 
The GRAYWAY is the Best Way! 
ROOT-KNOT of peach, caused by a small almost microscopic 
worm called a NEMATODE has long been a serious problem :in 
the warm, well-aerated soils of the Southern United States. 
© Peach roots are so severely attacked by the nematodes that 
peath orchards are a failure in many deep, sandy or sandy 
loam soils that could otherwise support profitable crops of 
peaches. 
@ The nematode frequently kills trees outright, as illustrated 
in the upper picture at the right showing the stumps of a 
large number of trees killed during the summer of 1939 in a 
North Texas orchard. This large vacant spot is being con- 
stantly enlarged as the nematodes are spreading rapidly to 
other trees. The owner told me that he had already lost 200 
bearing trees and that he was afraid he was going to lose 
his entire orchard in a few years. 
@ In many cases, under some conditions, infested trees are 
PEACHES 
On Nematode-Resistant Roots 
Note that the only peach varieties available this season on 
the nematode-resistant roots are the South Texas varieties des- 
cribed elsewhere in the catalog as suitable for the Gulf Coast 
and extreme Southern Texas where mild winters make it im- 
possible to use standard peach varieties. We have just a few 
hundred trees this season. 





Variety 

Height in feet 



Peento 



Pallas 
Luttichau 
Se ae Ba 
aS). a See 
ie Cee Ee 
OE Ee 
Our supply is limited to only a few hundred trees. 
**These prices are NOT prepaid. 
Disease-Resistant Grape roots — see CHAMPANEL 
GRAPE elsewhere in catalog. 
not killed, but are so weakened that the trees are stunted and 
bear small crops of inferior fruits. The tree marked with an 
arrow in the left hand upper illustration shows a peach tree 
with its root system so weakened by nematode that it lost its 
foliage during the middle of the summer. 
© For a number of years we have offered papershell pecan 
trees on our ‘'tested root-stocks,'’ and now we take great 
pleasure in offering a limited number of peach trees of suit- 
able varieties budded on Shali. and Yunnan, two of the nem- 
atode resistant root-stocks imported by the U. S. Government 
from China. 
@ So far as known, there is no other satisfactory way to grow 
peaches successfully in spite of nematodes, or to insure against 
future destruction of an ’orchard by them, than to bud our 
standard varieties on these resistant stocks, which means a tree 
with ‘good blood at BOTH ends."’ Don't you agree that this 
is cheap insurance for orchards? 
PLUMS 
On Disease-Resistant Roots 
Budded on Marianna plum roots that are immune to nema- 
tode injury and will grow in wetter ground than peach 
roots. The Marianna plum roots are also ‘said not to be so 
susceptible to root-rot as peach roots. The use of Grayway 
plum varieties propogated on Marianna rootstocks will enable 
profitable plums to be produced in many sections where plum 
production is now unprofitable because of nematodes, root-rot 
and poorly drained soils. 
Height in 
. 
SEX ot | 
x 
ate) BRE 



4 to 6 
heavy, 
branched 
Variety 


Feet 
to 4 
x 
Bruce 
Methley 
Burbank 
Sapa 
Santa Rosa* 






*Not the true Santa Rosa, but a similar plum. 
**These prices are NOT prepaid. 
Our present supply of these valuable trees is very limited. 
O—Means none available 
F—Very few availabie 
X—Means a very limited supply 
XX—Only a fair supply 
XXX—A plentiful supply 




“One impulse from a 
vernal wound 
May teach you more of 
man, 
Of moral evil and of 
good. 
Than all the sages can." 
Wordsworth. 
* 
Luck has a peculiar way 
of favoring those who do 
not depend on it. 
* 
Damascus is believed to 
be the oldest city in the 
world. 
* 
Soap is made to float 
by blowing it full of tiny 
air bubbles invisible to 
the eye while it is still 
hot. 
* 
Following the ine of 
least resistance is what 
makes men and_ rivers 
crooked. 
* 
The head of an _ ordi- 
nary match, dampened 
and rubbed on the fin- 
gers, will remove ink 
stains. 
* 
He who plants a tree 
benefftts another genera- 
tion. 
* 
There are two kinds of 
economy, possible saving 
and profitable spending. 
* 
The people of Kansas 
are supposed to live the 
longest of any in the 
United States. 
* 
He never was a friend 
who ceased to be one for 
slight cause. 
* 
Little deeds are little 
seeds that grow to be 
flowers or to weeds. 
* 
"He that planteth a 
tree is a servant of God. 
He provideth a_ kindness 
for many generations, and 
facts that he hath not 
seen shall bless him."— 
Van Dyke. 
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