THE SELECT PECAN 
We are pleased to be able to offer to 
our customers a limited quantity of trees 
of that wonderful variety of pecan, the 
Select, developed at Riverside, California, 
by Mr. R. A. Harris. For sixty years Mr. 
Harris has devoted time to pecan investi- 
gation and development, twenty-six of these 
years in California, and he believes the 
Select Pecan is the most valuable pecan 
creation in existence. Certainly, he says, it 
is the only variety that meets all require- 
ments of the best grade of commercial 
pecan. 
Mr. Harris is a highly trained horticul- 
turist and scientist. Among other things, he 
has developed methods of interpreting plants 
and fruit character in early stages, years 
before fruiting occurs in many varieties. By 
these indices of character he has selected 
and developed many valuable and superior 
fruits and nuts in many families and classes. 
Many of these have been producing for 
several years. All are unsurpassed in their 
respective fields. He has always had as his 
sole objective the advancement of science, 
and now at the age of seventy-six he feels 
that he has accomplished his objectives and 
has retired from active field work. He is free 
to devote all his time to completing the’ cor- 
relation of his life experiences and deduc- 
tions into a single reference volume which 
will serve as a basic source of information. 
This work has been in process for twenty- 
five years and is now virtually complete 
in manuscript form. 
The Select Pecan is going to become 
famous. It is large in size, the kernel is well 
developed, and these qualitites combine to 
make it the heaviest pecan known. Its good 
quality of meat is quite rare in extra large 
pecans, most of which have faulty kernels 
in a large percentage of the crop. This is a 
vital factor because in the final analysis the 
value of a nut is in its kernel. Purchasers 
should investigate this angle thoroughly 
when considering any nut. The Select has 
a thin, very dense shell which will preserve 
the high quality and flavor of the nut over 
a long period of time. A shell of more open 
texture will not do this. Further, the Select 
Pecan will start producing at an earlier age 
than any pecan we know, and will yield the 
