_ AN ANNOUNCEMENT 
We are proud to announce that we have arranged to prona- 
gate and catalog all the many fine varieties of plants that hav2 
resulted from the life work of Mr. J. A. Evans. For several 
years we have ben offering a number of his fine peaches, de- 
scribed elsewhere in this catalog, and we will soon bo able to 
offer a complete list of his remarkable collection of unusua! 
fruits and nuts. 
. 
Mr. Evans was for a number of years Horticulturist for the 
E:tension Division of the Texas A. & M. College, and is so well 
known that comment about the high quality of his plants is not 
needed. Descziptions will be given in our future catalogs as 
fast as we can propagate a sufficient number of plants. A few 
of these good and unusual items for our future catalogs will be: 
IDEAL, NUGGET, EVANS and other pecans. 
Two new grapes of outstanding merit. 

The photograph above shows Mr. Evans inspecting one of his The Spong Apricot. 
. Stephenson peach trees loaded with a heavy crop of magnifi- 
cent fruits. ; 

Keiffer TEXKING , 

FIGS for Health 
Bears Figs First Summer 
TEXAS EVEREEARINS. We think this is one of the finest of all figs. Bears heaviy on little 
trees just a few inches high -in nursery rows (see illustration). Figs June until frost. Seems to 
do better farther north than most figs. Straw colored fruit that rarely cracks. Good size and 
excellent flavor. 35c, 50c, 75c. 
Improved WALNUTS 
THOMAS and OwI0. Very fine improved black walnuts with comparatively thin shells. 
Crack easily and the meats separate easily in quarters, sometimes in halves. Delicious, 
old-time flavor. The black walnut makes a beautiful, long-lived tree. These improved 
varieties bear very young. Valuable nut-producers for home and orchard and excep- 
tionally fine for timber planting. 
WILSON WONDER English. Produces enormous walnuts. Trees are good producers 
and bear young. Recommended for homes but not for commercial orchard plantings 
in our section. 

Improved Walnuts—same price (by diameter) as pecan trees. 
English literature 
abounds in legends and 
mention of the rose. 
“The War of the Roses,” 
one of the greatest mili- 
tary struggles of Eng- 
lish history, was: so 
called because the con- 
tending parties had as 
their emblems’ white 
roses for the House of 
York and red roses for 
the House of Lancaster. 
* 
‘It is said that the 
only two trees indigenous 
to North America and 
found in no other parts 
of the world were the 
Pecan of Texas and the 
Southwest, and the giant 
Redwood of the West 
Coast. 
* 
The apple is probably 
the most important fruit 
in North America, and 
probably the most impor- 
tant tree in the entire 
North Temperate Zone. 
* 
What shrubs are adapt- 
ed for the shady side of 
the house? Red Tarta- 
rian Honeysuckle; Maho- 
nia; Snowberry; Coral 
Berry; Weigela rosea; 
Hypericum or Goldflower; 
Abelia grandiflora. 
The redbud and flower- 
ing dogwood trees are 
well adapted to growing 
in shady places. 
* 
“No tree in all the 
grove but has its 
charms, though each its 
hue peculiar.”—Cowper. 
- 
Houses inay be built 
of wood or stone, but 
only love can make a 
home. 
* 
Greek mythology attrib- 
utes the origin of the 
rose to several of the 
Olympian deities. 
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