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get good bearing trees. There are some soft shelled hickory nuts 

 that are worth as much as the soft shelled pecans of the south, about 

 which we hear so much. 



Mr. Steiman — I have been studying if it would not be profit- 

 able to plant nut trees on the uplands, where orchards do not do 

 well. Would it not be a good thing to plant nuts in the vacancies ? 



Dr. Green.: — Speaking of the pecans in Texas, last year it was 

 said that one certain tree produced three hundred dollars' worth of 

 nuts. At San Angelo, Texas, were the finest pecans 1 ever saw, 

 and brought some of them home, and they are now growing very 

 well. At what age should they begin bearing? 



Secretary Goodman. — At about ten years. 



Mr. Thornton. — I got some Texas pecans 18 years ago. Trees 

 are now 12 to 15 feet high, but have never had a crop. 



Mr. Nahm. — I have a neighbor who planted the same and trees 

 set fruit, but never fully mature the fruit. Better stick to Missouri 

 nuts. 



Col. Evans. — Would it pay us to add some foreign nuts? 



Dr. Whitten. — We planted some Japan walnuts, and some trees 

 began bearing at three years of age. The trees grew fast and well, 

 but in the winters now and then nearly winter-kill, but made a 

 good growth the next year. I do not think them at all better than 

 the pecan, walnut and hickory of Missouri, except that they add 

 variety. I have tried many strains of walnuts. European nuts 

 grow at Carthage, but not many of them live over our winters. 

 The kinds that will do not bear as good fruit as our walnuts. We 

 are making a collection of pecans and chestnuts. Pecans are nine 

 or ten years old. A few of them bore a little last year and also will 

 this. Chestnuts, when grafted, ])egin to bear at two and three 

 years old. In regard to the difficulty of transplanting, if we wait 

 till the leaves are fairly well pushed out before transplanting, it is 

 not so difficult, but do not wait till the twigs begin to grow. It is 

 easy to graft if w^e will wait till a good growth has started in the 

 spring, but fail in dormant trees. We are budding nut trees later 

 each spring with better results each time. 



"Ornamental Trees," by M. J. Wragg, Waukee, Iowa, was read 

 by Mr. Goodman. 



