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For Profit and Pleasure

Plant Indiana grown Hardy Northern Pecan Trees. For quality, thinness of shell and prolific bearing are unexcelled.

PLANT BUDDED AND GRAFTED TREES ONLY

Introduced and Grown by

VINCENNES NURSERIES, W. C. REED, Prop., Vincents, Ia4.

Will mail copy of Special Nut Catalogue upon request.

BUDDED TREES BEAR YOUNG

The above cut was made from photograph taken June 15, 1914, of Budded Busseron Pecan Tree in Nursery row. Age of tree 14 months from bud bearing 16 well developed nuts. Twenty- five per cent or more of the budded trees in nursery coming 2 year old set Catkins the past spring.

ORIGINAL TREES PROLIFIC

The original trees of Varieties offered in our Nut Catalogue from which we procure Propogating Wood have borne from 100 to 300 lbs. the past season.

Capital Printers

Vincennes, Ind.

COMMENTS AND TESTIMONIALS

Law Office of

Z. F. Yost. Pontiac, 111., Dec. 9th, 1914.

My Dear Sir:-1- v .%(■ /!'g' ‘V-A "I

The Budded Pecan trees you delivered to me at my place in northern WEST VIRGINIA last spring all did fine and made a vigorous; growth. In cutting them back, I procured some Scion wood which I grafted on native hickory and these took the Pecan Nuts you presented. I sprouted in hot bed and transplanted to nursery row and they grew'. Now I want for next spring at same place, more Pecan trees of same Hardy Varieties.

Yours Very Truly, " Z. F. YOST.

University of Toronto.

Toronto, Canada, Dec. 5th, 1913.

Dear Mr. Reed: — -

Yesterday I planted your trees (9 Budded Pecans) and I never re- ceived a package of trees from any nursery so well packed. The size of the tree and the grafting was even better than I expected for the price.

Respectfully yours, PROF. G. H. CORSAN.

The above shipment referred to did not arrive until December 3d, having been lost by the Express company and was fourteen days on the road, having been opened and fumigated at the Custom House at the bor- der and were rather dry when received. The following letter will show that Pecans are not hard to transplant if given attention and properly planted.

October 22d, 1914.

Dear Mr. Reed: —

I have sent back my order with Hardy Pecans) I got last fall, 1913. largest tree of all. The fumigators Respectfully yours,

corrections of the six varieties (of The Indiana alone died. It was the evidently killed it.

G. H. CORSAN.

Extract from letter October 28, 1914.

I note that the Pecans like our Summers and Winters better than the English Walnuts. Now, had l a large Pecan tree I am absolutely cer- tain that the Nuts would have thoroughly matured here this season.

Yours, G. H. CORSAN.

v s The Battle Creek Sanitarium.

Superintendent’s Office. Battle Creek, Mich., April L5, 1914;

J. H. Kellogg, M. D.

Gentlemen: — - 1-:'- 'u AA y' * '"A';i;' ;"'rA' -y i ; •

I have your letter enclosing bill for one1 dozen Pecan trees (Budded

Northern Varieties). The trees have also arrived in good shape. I am" very much interested in Nut culture. I have passed your bill along to our business department and asked them to send you a check.

Very Truly Yours, J. H. KELLOGG.

616 Madison Avenue, New York. October 13th, 1913. ;

My Dear Sir: —

Your attractive catalogue came some time ago and I have already ad- vised several people to correspond with you. There is to be a large and growing field for a responsible concern which will make a specialty of Nut trees, and who can advise people properly.

Yours Very Truly, ROBERT T. MORRIS, M. D.

New York, October 23d, 1913.

My Dear Sir: —

Answering your letter of the 20th, my order for two Grafted Pecan trees of each variety is not to be cancelled. In fact, you may put down a

permanent order for two trees of any new kind you may graft in the

future. Yours truly,

ROBERT T. MORRIS, M. D.

Note — Dr. Morris is perhaps the best posted authority in America on Edible Nuts. Was one of the organizers of the Northern Nut Growers’ As- sociation and its first president. His country home is located at Stam- ford, Conn., where his trees are planted. W. C. R.

Thomas P. Littlepage.

Attorney and Counselor at Law.

Union Trust Building.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 1st, 1914.

Dear Mr. Reed: —

I forgot to tell you in my last letter that I received the bundle of trees which you sent. They came in perfect condition and looked just as well as if they had just come out of the ground. The roots were damp and well protected. I never saw trees packed better for long distance shipment. Yours Very Truly,

T. P. LITTLEPAGE.

Note — Mr. Littlepage bought the first Budded Pecan Trees we ever >

sold of the Hardy Northern Varieties several years ago. He is one of the j

pioneers in Nut Culture in the North. President of the : Northern , Nut ■ Growers’ Association 1913-14.

Experiment Station's Endorsement.

The Pennsylvania State College.

School of Agriculture and Experiment Station.

Department of Horticulture.

State College, Pa.

February 24th, 1914.

Mr. W. C. Reed,

Dear Sir: —

In our course in Nut Culture this semester, we could make use of your 1914 Nut Catalogue. Will you be kind enough to send us fifty-five copies for use in the class room?

Thanking you in advance, I am Very Truly Yours,

F. N. FAGAN.

Purdue University.

Agriculture Experiment Station.

Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 23, 1913.

Dear Sir: —

We will consider it a favor to have ten copies of your Nut Catalogue to use in our laboratory exercises in pomology.

Yours Very Truly, J. G. BOYLE,

Assistant Professor in Horticulture.

Division of Horticulture.

Oregon Agricultural College and Experiment Station.

Corvallis, Ore., Dec. 22, 1913.

Dear Sir: — •

Your letter of the 15th has just been received. I am turning in a requisition to the business office for one or two trees of each of the varie- ties of Nuts that you give quotations on in this letter and you will receive an order from that office within a few days. I shall be glad to have you send me your Catalogue another year, listing the New Varieties of Walnuts and Peaeans that you will be propogating at that time.

Yours Very Truly, V. R. GARDNER.

Note: — We have also filled orders for Nut Trees from The North Carolina Department of Agriculture (shipped to four State Test Farms.)

Kentucky Agriculture Experiment Station.

Deleware College Agriculture and Experiment Station.

Cornell University, Ithica, N. Y.

Ohio Experiment Station.

And a number of other Colleges and Experiment Stations.