38 NUT GROWING 



men from advertising widely nut trees which are to 

 go to wrong localities and which may be seedling 

 trees or trees which will bring disappointment after 

 several years of waiting for them to come into 

 bearing. 



Recently our United States Department of Agri- 

 culture at Washington has become actively interested 

 in nut questions. Dr. David Fairchild, Agricultural 

 Explorer, has added a number of new species from 

 foreign lands. Mr. W. A. Taylor, Chief of the De- 

 partment of Pomology, is now directing nut work 

 in a large and progressive way. Requests for infor- 

 mation on the subject of nuts should be made to Mr. 

 Taylor. Mr. C. A. Reed, Nut Culturist, travels 

 about over various parts of the country obtaining 

 information which covers the whole field of Ameri- 

 can interest in the subject. 



Along with increased interest in the raising of 

 nut trees has come the psychology of the nursery- 

 man expressed in various ways. Honest nursery- 

 men seriously interested in promoting a new industry 

 have carefully avoided making mistakes and have 

 recorded their mistakes in such a way that they are 

 at the disposal of all inquirers among their cus- 

 tomers. Other nurserymen, equally honest perhaps, 

 but busy with many other kinds of trees, have added 

 nut trees to their lists and have frequently given a 

 great deal of misleading information in regard to 

 this special department. Many have sold seedling 

 trees, sometimes by the name of a variety, because 

 they were not aware of the fact that nuts did not 



