322 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Flits usually come true from the seed, and therefore great pains 

 should be taken to get the best. 



Experiment has shown that nuts slightly dry, especially chestnuts, 

 will sprout, so that nuts may be bought in the market, if fresh, and 

 grown with but little loss. 



WHAT TO PLANT. 



All kinds of nut trees are profitable in their natural habitat, and 

 some may prove so out of their native home. The hickory grows ev- 

 erywhere in the middle West, and would be profitable for waste places 

 and roadside planting, if every tree was barren. The shellbark hickory 

 comes into bearing in about ten years, and is worth more in the market 

 than the average peach, pear or almost any other fruit. 



Of the value of walnut timber all are aware. Timber men figure 

 that it would be a good investment to buy lands suitable for walnut 

 trees at anything under $25 per acre and raise nothing else on it but 

 walnut timber. But the nuts will outsell apples, and when properly 

 managed produce abundantly. The age at bearing depends largely on 

 the kind and treatment. Of course trees grown close for timber will 

 not produce like those planted for orchards, and the grower must elect 

 whether he will grow for nuts or trees, or combine the two. 



White walnuts (butternuts) bear abundantly and command good 

 prices. 



England imports 150,000 bushels of walnuts from the Continent 

 annually, and would take a good many more were an effort made to 

 ship them regularly from this country. English walnuts would do well 

 in Southern Indiana if the hardier varieties were planted and a little 

 attention given while small. They have been snccessfully grown in 

 New York. Trees planted in Bergen county, New Jersey, in 1854, 

 have borne every year since 1864. When we consider the number of 

 bushels of English walnuts imported every year and their value, an 

 estimate may be made of the profits to be realized by their cultivation 

 here. 



The English filbert will also grow and bear here or wherever 

 peaches dowell. They come into bearing early, and occupy compara- 

 tively little space. 



Of the American chestnut we all know something. But we do not 

 know of the profits awaiting those who plant the improved varieties 

 and take care of the trees as we do our orchards. It has been demon- 

 si rated that Japan chestnuts will bear in New York and New Jersey 

 and that the tree is hardy here. The advantage in growing them is to 

 be found in the fact that they come into bearing as early as the peach, 



