ORNAMENTAL TREES 



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The planting of well selected trees is a duty each land owner owes to himself 

 and posterity, and a duty which should not be delayed, the sooner planted the 

 longer both yourself and the public may enjoy them. 



There are several good reasons for planting shade trees; they keep off the in- 

 tense heat of the summer sun; they afford a cool spot where the children can play: 

 they make the place more pleasing and they greatly increase the value of the home. 



NUT TREES 



ALMONDS 



Hard Shell — The tree is very showy when 

 in bloom. The kernels of the nuts are large, 

 plump and sweet. Hardy. 



Soft, or Paper Shell — Encloses as fine a 

 nut in a soft shell. Needs protection. 



CHESTNUTS 



American Sweet — The nuts of this tree 

 form quite an item in our commerce. Al- 

 though smaller than some other sorts they 

 ere sweeter and more delicately flavored. 

 This Chestnut is also a grand timber and 

 ornamental shade tree, spreading, in mid- 

 summer, billowy masses of creamy fra- 

 grant catkins above its large, deep green 

 leaves, making a most beautiful specimen 

 on the lawn. 



Paragon (Great American) — The most 

 widely planted and most uniformly suc- 

 cessful variety yet cultivated in the United 

 States. The three or more broad thick, 

 handsome nuts in each burr are of extra 

 size* and quality. 



FILBERTS— HAZELNUTS 



The filbert succeeds well on almost all 

 soils, the little trees or bushes bearing 

 early and abundantly. 



English — Most hardy and generally sat- 

 isfactory over a wide territory. The nuts 

 are nearly round, rich-flavored and tooth- 

 some. 



HICKORY 



Shellbark — In flavor and quality of ker- 

 nel this is generally esteemed the choicest 

 of our native nuts — of all nuts some ex- 

 perts have said. The tree is a handsome 

 stately shade tree with tough white wood 

 of great strength and elasticity, market- 

 able at high prices. 



WALNUTS 



American Black — The large, oily nuts 

 are borne in heavy crops. They are much 

 relished by children, and always market- 

 able at a fair price. The tree grows quite 

 fast; its dark rich wood is exceedingly 

 valuable. 



English — A fine, lofty-growing tree, with 

 handsome, spreading head; produces large 

 crops, of thinshelled, delicious nuts which 

 are always in demand at good prices. Not 

 hardy enough for general culture north. 



Siebold's Japan — Of the finer imported 

 Walnuts this is the species best adapted 

 by its hardy, vigorous habit for general 

 culture in our country. It grows with 

 great vigor, assumi-ng a handsome shape 

 without pruning, and has withstood a tem- 

 perature of 21 degrees below zero without 

 injury. Its nuts are considerably larger 

 than the common hickory-nut, and are 

 borne in clusters of fifteen to twenty. The 

 shell is a little thicker than that of the 

 English Walnut, which it resembles in a 

 general way; the kernels are meaty, deli- 

 cate, and can be removed entire. The trees 

 begin to bear when two or three years old. 



