The Garden Magazine, October, 1921 



95 



HICKORIES are valuable for home use. They 

 are always good to look at, and their open- 

 ing buds are as gorgeous, when the sun hits them, 

 as the most beautiful of flowers. The trees cast 

 a fine shade. In the fall they are symphonies 

 of yellow and brown. Grafted Shagbarks of 

 good variety can be secured from nurserymen. 

 In our own grounds we have a Beaver Hickory 

 that we are watching with interest. 



Of all the Hickories, Doctor Bailey says, the 

 Pecan is the most valuable horticulturally. Also 

 it is one of the most beautiful. Its fall display 

 of color is very rich. It may surprise many per- 

 sons to know that the Pecan can be grown in 

 the North. Doctor Bailey says that Pecans can 

 be raised successfully wherever fruit culture can 

 be carried on. Hardy varieties that originated 

 in Indiana and Illinois can be obtained readily 

 from nut tree growers. 



There is no question as to their hardiness here 

 in Maryland. At the time we set out our English 

 Walnuts, we planted three varieties of Pecans — 

 the Indiana, the Busseron, and the Butterick. 

 Since that time we have had two unusually severe 

 winters, during one of which we had temperatures 

 of approximately 25 degrees below zero. Not 

 the slightest harm was done to either our Pecans 

 or our English Walnuts. The latter are grafted 

 on Black Walnut stocks, which is supposed to 

 make them hardier. On the other hand, several 

 of our Sweet Cherries suffered severely and have 

 been dying by inches ever since. 



Incidentally, the Pecan grows to very large 

 size. In the North it will not attain anything 

 like the growth it makes in the rich bottcm-Iands 

 of the South, where it attains a height of 100 to 

 175 feet. Also it is a very long lived tree. At 

 Mount Vernon there are two enormous Pecans 

 that George Washington himself planted. For 

 use in a city, where high buildings dwarf ordinary 

 trees, the Pecan might be particularly serviceable. 



SHAGBARK HICKORY 

 (Carya ovata) 



An impressive specimen of 

 perhaps our most popular 

 native nut tree whose yearly 

 yield is figured in bushels. 

 Found throughout the Middle 

 West and in many of the 

 Eastern Atlantic States, the 

 Shagbark plays in the quality 

 of its crop a close second to its 

 relative, the Pecan (Carya 

 Pecan). Its nuts are large, 

 delicious in flavor, and easily 

 cracked. Its dignity and 

 enduringness render it the fit 

 and natural guardian of a 

 home 



SEEDLING WALNUTS 



The Persian or English do- 

 mesticated species (Juglans 

 regia) has found conditions 

 here to its liking and in 

 California alone there are 

 more than a million trees 

 which largely supply the rest 

 of us with the delectable and 

 nutritious "English Walnut." 

 Why not grow some of our 

 own? A perfectly possible 

 thing wherever the winters 

 are not too rigorous and there 

 is a fair amount of moisture 



