TREES FOR LONG ISLAND 



Nut Trees 



The Hazlenut ripens its de- 

 licious nuts in September 



OMMERCIAL nut-growing has reached a high development with the English Walnut 

 in California, the Pecan in the lower Mississippi Valley and the South Atlantic States, 

 and the grafted varieties of the Chestnut in Pennsylvania. 



The possibilities of nut-culture are as little developed as any use of the earth's 

 surface. The available knowledge of nut-culture in the northeastern states is very 

 slight, and you can contribute a share by experimenting. 



The easiest and quickest thing to grow is the Hazelnut. We have a 

 ;■■ quantity of young bushes which are bearing in the nurseries. They are 



- a. healthy and vigorous, and will take care of themselves on dry ground and 

 look better than most of the flowering shrubs in a drought. Plant twenty- 

 five of them 4 feet apart in your shrubbery border, and you will harvest a crop the 

 second year. The English Filberts have been developed into many named varieties. 

 They occasionally bear well here, but are liable to be severely injured by a fungous 

 disease on the branches. 



The Chestnut-bark disease, Diaporthe parasitica, an early description of which was 

 in a previous edition of our catalogue, has spread from New York to Pennsylvania, 

 Maryland and Massachusetts. Pennsylvania has appropriated $273,000 to endeavor 

 to check its spread. 



We have given up the culture of the American and European Chestnuts and the 

 Chinquapin. We have a few Japanese Chestnuts. These are attacked, also, but to such a 

 slight degree that it is practical to keep them alive and 

 bearing by cutting out the diseased spots to beyond the 

 diseased tissue, and painting with tar. 



For literature, send to Dr. Haven Metcalf, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 

 The only thing to do is to cut the Chestnut timber as soon 

 as possible before it decays, and utilize it for telegraph- 

 poles and lumber. We are frequently asked what to 

 plant to take the place of the Chestnut around residences, 

 where a tall tree is needed. We have trees of Pin Oak, 

 Maple, White Pine and others, 30 feet high. On one large 

 Long Island estate, 250,000 small forest trees have been 

 planted, such as White Pines, Red Oaks, Tulip Trees and 

 Locusts. 



The Hickories are among the most dignified lawn 

 and shade trees. They are considered difficult to transplant and slow to grow. That is no sufficient reason for not 

 trying them. It is best to start with young trees. In a few years there will be improved varieties with larger nuts and 

 thinner shells. Some Hickories are dying from a bark-borer. This is attacking comparatively few trees, and is not so 

 serious as the Chestnut disease. The borers are attacked by woodpeckers and an ichneumon fly, a wasp-like insect that 

 forces its ovipositor through the wood and lays an egg in the borer. Send for literature to Dr. E. P. Felt, State 

 Entomologist, Albany, New York, who advises prompt cutting and 

 burning of the trees as soon as affected, and before the adult beetles 

 emerge from the numerous holes in the bark. 



The northern varieties of the Pecan are hardy on Long Island. 

 There are two bearing trees, fifty years old, at Westbury, Long Island. 



Of the Walnuts, there are four species successfully cultivated 

 on Long Island. Black Walnut, English Walnut, Japanese Walnut 

 and Butternut. There has been no serious trouble develop with 

 their culture and there is no serious objection to their use in land- 

 scape planting. They are not, however, such handsome trees as the 

 Hickory, Chestnut, Oak, Linden, Maple or Tulip Tree. 



For further information on Nut Culture, see "The Nut Cul- 

 . turist," Fuller. Orange Judd Co., and Northern Nut Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, Dr. W. C. Deming, secretary, Westchester, N. Y. 

 CHESTNUT, Japanese (see p. 6.) r WALNUT, Japan (see p. 21). 

 HICKORY, Shagbark (see p. 8). Black (see page 21). 



BUTTERNUT (see page 21). 

 HAZELNUT, American (see 

 page 41). 



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The Black Walnut has a large meat that comes out of the 

 shell easily 



Mockernut (see page 

 Pig Nut (see page 8). 

 PECAN (see page 8). 



Pecan Nut. The northern form is about half as 

 large as the improved southern varieties 



