NUT TREES FOR ROADSIDE PLANTING 101 



caustic witticisms aimed at the planter. They enter- 

 tained themselves by commenting on what "that d 



Yankee" (from Maine) was doing. Their jokes were 

 varied, as usual in such cases, but the general opinion of 

 the planter would have been expressed in the terms of 

 Blackstone by "non compos mentis." Years went by, 

 and in time these very neighbors came to ask employment 

 from the planter in his nut orchards. They then frankly 

 admitted that "It always did seem like the man had more 

 sense than most people." 



The importance of the nut-raising industry along 

 commercial lines is evidenced by a total investment of 

 more than $110,000,000 in the growing of Persian (Eng- 

 lish) walnuts in California, with an annual crop value of 

 from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000; and the growing of 

 almonds in the same state, with a yearly yield of 

 $2,000,000. 



Pecans are grown, wild or cultivated, in every Atlantic 

 seaboard and Gulf coast state from Maryland to Texas, 

 and up the Mississippi to southern Indiana and eastern 

 Iowa and in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas. Pecan pro- 

 duction is bound to increase for the one sufficient reason 

 that this crop thrives best mainly where no other culti- 

 vated tree product of importance is being raised. The 

 range of the Pecan is for the most part north of the citrus 

 fruit section, and either south of, or below the altitude 

 level of, the successful raising of apples and other decidu- 

 ous fruits. 



The Pecan is, perhaps, the finest of all American nut 

 trees for roadside planting wherever conditions of soil and 

 climate will warrant. It is strictly native to this conti- 

 nent and is found wild nowhere but in the United States. 

 Beautiful specimens 3 or 4 feet through at the base and 

 from 100 to 150 feet in height are found in the alluvial soils 



