
"Our Office Building in Pecan Trees" 
The Bass Pecan Company 
Is One of the World’s Largest and Oldest Pecan Nurseries 
HIS is our 41st Anniversary Catalog Edition, as our first catalog was published 
in the Spring of 1909. However, our company is considerably older than that, 
dating back to before the turn of the century to our interest in pecans and growing 
pecan trees. 
In 1909, when we printed our first catalog, we wanted to tell the whole world 
about the profit and pleasure to be had out of growing pecan trees. In 1949 and 
1950 we still want to tell the world the same thing: Pecan trees are a joy to grow, 
and a source of profit as well as pleasure. 
In the years since 1900 we have grown from a very small nursery to the position 
where we can say that we are the LARGEST GROWERS OF PECAN TREES IN 
THE WORLD! And we are confident there are more BASS-grown pecan trees 
living, growing, and bearing heavy crops than of any other grower in the world! We 
ksow you will want to plant pecan trees from the largest growers, from the Bass 
Pecan Company, now in its third generation with a fourth coming along; always 
interested in growing the finest pecan trees and nursery stock that money can buy! 
Our sole business, which has been our work throughout the last 40-odd years, 
is the growing and selling of pecan trees. It requires our attention 365 days a year. 
This is not a company which buys trees each year for re-sale, or sends out agents to 
peddle trees; but a large organization operating throughout the year, and selling 
our own trees direct to the customer for cash only. Our operations cover over 20,000 
acres of land in Lamar, Pearl River and Forrest Counties, Mississippi, with 2,000 
acres in pecan orchards and nurseries, and the rest well reforested with several mil- 
lion pine trees, While we are mainly interested in growing pecan trees, growing 
trees of all kinds interests us, and we get our greatest pleasure from this. 
B* sure. you plant BASS-grown trees, which have been recognized for many 
years as the finest pecan itees in the world, as well as the earliest and heaviest 
bearing. 
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