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With the hickories, (carya) varieties of the various species and their 

 liybrids seemingly are more jDarticular as to stocks and the pecan is 

 the one species of hickory that I liave tried that all the other hickories 

 do well on. As a general rule^ however, I would prefer the varieties 

 of each species of hickory worked on stocks of their own species, but 

 the shagbark. We use the bitternut stocks for the shagbark-bitternut 

 of their faster growth, they are easier to grow and graft than stocks of 

 the shagbark. We use the bitternut stocks for the shagbark-bitternut 

 hybrids and believe this is the best stoCk for these, although they do 

 well on the pecan stock also. 



Handling and Planting Seed Nuts 

 Seed for planting to grow stocks should be either planted in the 

 fall or stratified in sand or light soil and planted the following spring. 

 Stratifying is simply bedding in sand or light, sandy soil, using three 

 or four parts sand to one part seed with a good layer of sand or light 

 soil over the top to prevent the seed drying out. 



With small lots of a few bushels or less, boxes with the bottoms 

 removed and screen tacked on to })revent mice getting in, are splendid 

 for his purpose. The boxes are set on top of the ground, the screen side 

 down, and when filled another screen should be tacked over the top and 

 the boxes banked with earth, when the seed will require no further 

 attention until planting time. The seed should be planted before it 

 begins to sprout. With the black walnut, bitternut, and the pecan this 

 would be before April 20th, in southeastern Pennsylvania. The Jap- 

 anese walnuts usually vegetate a little earlier or April 10th to 15th. 



The land for planting seed nuts should be rich and well prepared 

 as for planting garden vegetables. The usual nursery practice is to 

 plant in rows 2i to 3^ feet apart, dropping the nuts thickly but in a 

 straight line, in narrow trenches about two inches deep. After the 

 seed is planted it is covered with several inches of earth. After the 

 seed is well sprouted and before the plants begin to come through, 

 the ridge over the row is pulled down to the ground level. This leaves 

 a light covering over the seed and leaves the surface soil mellow and 

 clean over the row. The young plants must be well cultivated and 

 kept free from weeds through the growing season. 



Transplanting and Handling Seedling Stocks 

 The following spring, or when the seedlings are one year old, 



