HE CULTURE OF NUT BEARING TREES FOR PROFIT IN 

 the United States, except for timber, has until recently received 

 but little attention. This is due largely to the abundance of wild 

 nuts, which have partially supplied the market demand, but mainly from the 

 fact that the trees have been but little grown in the nurseries, and those dug 

 from the forests, or where they had come up naturally, having but little or no 

 fibrous roots, their transplanting has been attended with much uncertainty, and 

 the impression has been formed that the seed must be planted where the tree is 

 intended to stand ; while to the contrary, many of the nut bearing trees when 

 grown in the nursery are well supplied with fibrous roots and can be trans- 

 planted as safely as an apple tree, and the planter has the benefit of three or 

 four years' growth in the nursery over that of planting the seed, with the 

 uncertainty of their coming up regularly, and the time, care and attention 

 required to get them properly started. 



For many years there has been some interest in planting nut bearing trees, 

 both for shade and nuts. And we occasionally find on old farms, from which 

 the original timber had been cut, the pioneers had spared the most valu- 

 able of the nut trees, consisting of Chestnut, Walnut, Shellbark and Pecan, 

 which in succeeding years have yielded abundant crops of toothsome nuts that 

 have not only gladdened the hearts of the younger generation in their annual 

 gatherings and helped to while away the long winter evenings at the farmer's 

 home, but have also proven a most valuable source of revenue during seasons 

 of other crop failures. From these individual trees many have been stimulated 

 to increase their planting and establish orchards of selected varieties. 



As with fruit, great caution should be exercised in planting a nut orchard 

 until a careful investigation has been made of the species best suited to soil 



