.MARYLAND NUT NURSERIES 



WHY PLANT NUT TREES 



Pecan and walnut trees are long lived — from fifty to two hun- 

 dred years. Nuts are almost non-perishable. They do not have to 

 be hurriedly picked, packed and rushed to market or cold storage. 

 The demand has never been supplied and we import millions of 

 pounds annually. The trees need no pruning. Compared with 

 apples, pears and peaches they have few enemies. The pecan and 

 black walnut are two of our oldest and hardiest forest trees. If 

 farmers in proper climates would set 10 per cent of their land to 

 the right varieties of nut trees and give them care, they would in due 

 time derive a good income, increasing as the years go by. If a land- 

 owner wants something out of the ordinary, considered from the 

 standpoint of attractiveness and profit and wants to minimize the 

 burdensome, complicating and expensive labor problems, he should 

 set a nut orchard. 



THE PECAN TREE AS AN ORNAMENTAL 



Prof. W. N. Hutt 

 State Horticulturist of North Carolina 



"Few trees possess more distinctive beauty than the pecan. There is some- 

 thing about its stalwart form and graceful, plume-like foliage that distinguishes it 

 readily from all other trees. In a group one can even at a distance pick out the 

 pecan trees at first glance, for there is something about them that marks them 

 as different from all other trees. It is a combination of strength and beauty 

 artistically blended and molded together. These characteristics make the pecan 

 an ideal tree for ornamental planting. Some of the finest parks in the South owe 

 their rare beauty in a large measure to the soft blending of waving pecan foliage. 

 The beauty of Audubon Park, in New Orleans, so famous for its live oaks, is 

 also largely enhanced by the soft foliage of its pecan trees. 



As a lawn tree the pecan is unique. Its clean, strong, stalwart form proclaims 

 it an aristocrat among the trees. It grows to be of large size and has a beautifully 

 symmetrical form. The trunk is straight, clean and upright, carrying its lace-like 

 foliage high out of reach and leaving the ground beneath it free and unobstructed. 

 From its natural habit, the pecan tree carries its growth up with a single leader 

 till well out of reach, then it forks out into a beautiful spreading head, which covers 

 a wide extent of space. The branches are strong and do not trail or droop to the 

 ground, but retain their erect position, even when drenched with rain. The bark 

 of the tree is light in color and comparatively smooth, and does not shed nor scale 

 off, even on very old trees. 



Perhaps the most beautiful thing about the pecan tree is its handsome foliage. 

 The leaves are compound in form and made up of numerous sickle-shaped, shining 

 leaflets, which are symmetrically arranged, so as to give the whole leaf a beautiful, 

 long plume-like appearance. These long plumes are so versatile that they are 

 stirred by the slightest movements of the air. On a hot sultry afternoon they are 

 like the quakenasp — a natural indicator of the slightest air currents. In light 

 breezes they are in constant graceful movement, like the long, waving plumes of 

 the ostrich. The shade afforded by a pecan tree is not the dense, heavy umbrage 

 that excludes the sun and harbors dampness, but the light, dappled, mackerel 



