vi PREFACE 



have been done by any one excepting the most ex- 

 pert horticulturist two years ago. The simplest 

 methods of propagation known to the author have 

 been described, the idea being to show one way for 

 doing things successfully. 



The subject of nuts leaped into the firing line as 

 a twentieth century movement along with develop- 

 ment of the automobile, wireless telegraphy, and 

 the aeroplane. 



America has suddenly become aware of the food 

 value of nuts and their relation to the shortage of 

 labor question. A tree works while the farmer 

 sleeps and his hired man goes to town. Men who 

 know most about nuts are afraid to present their 

 ideas in book form at this moment of rapidly chang- 

 ing knowledge of the subject. The Georgia pecan 

 grower would not accept all of the California walnut 

 grower's conclusions of to-day and neither one of 

 them would feel comfortable with information com- 

 ing from Pennsylvania chestnut growers. There is 

 need right now for a little book that will press a 

 button and turn the light on the essentials of the sub- 

 ject. The general farmer is asking for such a guide 

 and so is the amateur garden lover. The profes- 

 sional nut grower says that he would like to look 

 that sort of book over in order to check up some of 

 the things that he has forgotten about. 



In order to keep abreast of the times the reader 

 who finds that he is developing a brotherly feeling 

 toward the red squirrel will observe that he needs 

 to have access to a good deal of reading material. 



