MARYLAND NUT NURSERIES 



VARIETIES 



The question of varieties of nuts is one of the greatest impor- 

 tance. Pecan orchards have been grown in the South for more than 

 thirty years; Persian walnuts have been grown on the Pacific Coast 

 for a like period and yet there is still difference of opinion among 

 the experts in each of these sections as to what varieties are best. 

 Anyone who waits to set a nut orchard until this question of best 

 varieties is settled may never set one. A bearing orchard today of 

 any we list would be valuable. In the future, certain varieties may 

 forge ahead because they may prove to be better adapted to com- 

 mercial growing. We have all of the listed varieties growing in our 

 orchard near Bowie, Maryland (at Lloyd's Station on the W. B. & 

 A. Electric Line). -Some of them are of more value for special pur- 

 poses than others. Such pecans as the Greenriver, Major and 

 Niblack should be ideal for candy purposes and the commercial 

 nut crackeries. The larger pecans such as the Posey, Butterick, 

 Indiana, Busseron and Warrick will be better show nuts and attract 

 more attention on the fruit-stands. Anyone who sets an orchard 

 of any size should set some of all standard varieties. The serious 

 mistake is not made by the one who sets nut trees but by the one 

 who does not. One of our neighbors once asked when we expected 

 the trees we were then setting to bear nuts. We answered that we 

 did not know when they would bear but that we were perfectly 

 sure they would bear a long time before the ones he was not setting. 



L'pon request we will give prospective purchasers of trees our 

 advice as to what varieties are best suited to their localities and 

 climates. On large orders we will take contracts to furnish trees and 

 set them ourselves. 



PECANS 



Pecan trees are native from Mexico to Rock Island, Illinois. 

 But there is almost as much difference in the hardiness of the south- 

 ern and northern pecans as there is in the orange and the apple. 

 Evansville, Indiana — on the 38th parallel — is probably about the 

 center of the northern pecan belt. It is useless to consider the 

 southern varieties for northern planting. They will not succeed. 



The parent northern pecan trees growing near the Evansville 

 latitude are the Butterick in White County, Illinois; the Major, 

 Greenriver and Kentuckv on the banks of the Ohio River in Ken- 



