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Pecan Tree 

Pecan, Desirable 
HERE ARE 
OUR VARIETIES 
and PRICES 
Brooks. Promising new variety with excellent cracking qualities. 
Although small, it is a heavy producer, resistant to disease. 
Supply of trees limited. 
Curtis. A very thin-shelled nut with sweet meat of excellent 
flavor. An old variety which has quite recently come back 
into favor. Supply of trees limited. 
Desirable. Large nuts of delicious flavor. Originated 1915—20 
in Mississippi, but lost until discovered some years later by 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. Excellent cracking and 
separating quality. Early and prolific bearer. 
Farley. A new variety highly recommended by Georgia Coastal 
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Plains Experiment Station. Vigorous and prolific. Early 
bearer; disease-resistant. Nut medium sized, round, well filled. 
A plump kernel, high in oil content, makes it a good cracker. 
Moneymaker. An early and prolific bearer and a healthy, vigor- 
ous grower. It is proving a very profitable commercial variety. 
Moore. Nuts of medium size. A vigorous, healthy grower and 
very early and prolific bearer. 
Schley. This variety is placed by some at the head of the list. 
It is a large, thin-shelled nut of fine flavor and is well filled with 
meat. Liable to scab. In quality of meat and thinness of shell 
it is surpassed by no other variety. 
Stuart. An old favorite that has been widely tested. This is a 
variety that can be planted with safety and succeeds over a 
wider territory than probably any other kind. 
Pecan Nursery Features 
The success of the orchard is determined by the char- 
acter of the transplanted tree. A runt in the nursery 
never grows into a giant in the orchard. It is, therefore, 
important to begin with the best obtainable nursery 
stock. The following distinctive features characterize 
our nursery practice: 
1. 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. 
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 welldeveloned 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. 
WIGHT NURSERIES - CAIRO, GEORGIA 
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 that a tree can be grown more cheaply by grafting 
than by budding. 

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PECAN PRICES 







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*Available in very limited quantities in Stuart, Schley, 
Moneymaker and Moore varieties. 


