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much the easiest and cheapest and quickest way of" starting the hickory 

 business. I expect most of the hickory nut supply to come from such 

 trees growing in permanent pastures, often rough pastures. Now is a 

 good time to begin. Scion wood can be obtained if trees cannot. 



3. The Northern Pecan — The pecan lifted over the fence from the 

 southern forest to the southern orchard is now the second nut of Amer- 

 ica in commercial ])roduction. This tree is also native in southern 

 Ohio, in Indiana, and is even growing and bearing in Nebraska. In 

 the nortli also the progress of catching parent trees and taming them 

 has taken place as it did at an earlier day in the South. Tiie gigantic 

 trees of the Chesapeake country seem to show by their century of suc- 

 cess that some northern pecans are absolutely adjusted to this climate. 

 The qu.ility of northern pecans is better than that of the South. Sev- 

 *'ral varieties of grafted trees are now available in commercial nurser- 

 ies, and specimens of them are bearing well in this climate. 



4. The Japanese Walnut — I mention it fourth because of its ap- 

 parently absolute climatic fidjustment to the climate of the southeastern 

 United States. The trees from China and Japan suit us much better 

 than the trees from Europe because the European summer climate 

 is cool in the northwestern part and dry in the southern part, there- 

 fore the European trees have not been subjected to the fungus test 

 which the first Marjdand summer gives them. Contrast this European 

 climate, from which we transplant so much of our agriculture, with the 

 summer of Japan and China, which reeks with hot humidity. Hence 

 the great vigor of many oriental trees that have survived it and have 

 been transplanted in this country. One or two varieties of Japanese 

 walnut, called heart nuts, are on sale at the nurseries. They are very 

 swift growers and prolific producers. 



5-6. The Hazelnut and the Filbert — These are cousins. The hazel- 

 nut is native to America, the filbert to Europe and West Asia. The 

 hazelnut is a weed in many parts of the United States. Several varie- 

 ties have been selected for commercial propagation and are on sale. It 

 is a quick grower and prolific. 



The filbert has long been an important commercial nut in Asia 

 Minor and various parts of Europe. 



Not long ago we thought they were comparatively worthless in 



