NUT TREES are more permanent, more ornamental, and will 'be more profit- 
able than any other class of trees one can plant. It requires four to eight years 
to get a grafted nut tree ready for sale. This makes the first cost seem high. How- 
ever, when we consider that It requires tout one-third to one-fourth as many nut 
trees as fruit trees to plant an acre, the first cost is really less and the nut trees 
will produce profitably from two to six times as long ; "besides, when they reach 
maturity they have a great value for lumber and fuel. 
Nuts supply all the essentials of human food and are coming into more gen- 
eral use. In the future agriculture, nut crops will have an important part., Why 
plant Box Elders, Elms, and Poplars which can give us hut leaves and a poor 
quality of fuel? 
The one dependable way to secure valuable varieties of nut trees is to plant 
only grafted trees. 
TRANSPLANTING nut trees successfully depends greatly upon securing trees 
which have been transplanted once or twice before they were grafted. 
Cutting back the top severely Is another very essential requirement. Then let 
the tree grow as it will for two years, so the root will become well established. 
Then trim and train to one shoot until the desired height for the top is reached. 
We will properly cut back the tops of all nut trees we send out, without extra 
charge, and will wax the cut surfaces with our specially prepared tree wax, if re- 
quested to do so. 
Our hardy northern grown nut trees may be safely transplanted either spring 
or fall. It is a decided advantage to plant nut trees four to six inches deeper than 
they stood in the nursery, so in case of accident to the top (rabbits or mice may 
girdle them ) , there will be enough of the graft in the ground to throw up a new 
shoot and save the variety. 
The following PECANS are all natives of IOWA and apparently as hardy as 
our Hickories. These are of our own introduction and are now offered for' the 
first time. They all have very thin shells and crack out most freely. 
WITTE PECAN. Parent tree stands along the Mississippi River on the Iowa 
side and is over 100 feet high. The nut is a real paper shell and a very free 
cracker. It is as large as any of the so-called Northern Pecans and originated 
fully 200 miles farther North than any other true Pecan of its size. Quality and 
plumpness of meat not surpassed by any. Its fruit matured perfectly here in the 
north part of Linn County, IOWA, this past season. We confidently recommend 
It for trial as the most NORTHERN hardy good PECAN yet discovered. 
CAMPBELL PECAN. Parent tree stands in the same region a few miles 
from the Witte. As good a nut in every respect except that. It is some smaller. 
One can crack and get out the meats faster than they can be eaten properly. Very 
desirable for home use. 
OBERMAN PECAN. An early maturing Pecan of about the same size as the 
CAMPBELL,. Eating quality of the best, very desirable for home use. 
The following PECAN SHELLBARK HICKORY HYBRIDS are both natives 
of IOWA. We are first to propagate and introduce these. 
BURLINGTON. Parent tree belongs to the City of BURLINGTON, IOWA. 
It is an old tree and antedates the settlement of white man in this region. For 
the 1920 crop over NINETY DOLLARS was realized from the sale of its nuts. 
Suppose one had an acre of such trees, is there any other crop to which IOWA 
soil could be devoted that would bring near such returns? It actually excells the 
most golden crop reports of the Pacific Coast. Nuts of same shape as Pecans, 
shells a little thicker, very free cracker and unsurpassed flavor. They are nearly 
as large as the largest southern Pecans, color of shell between that of Pecan and 
Hickory. We have fruited this here in Linn County the two past seasons, maturing 
it early and perfectly. It has endured some of our hardest Iowa test winters here 
unharmed. 
GREENBAY. The same general description of the BURLINGTON will fi*: 
this except that the nuts are much larger, larger than any Pecan. Original tree 
stands along the Mississippi River and is of great, age, nearly five feet in diameter, 
sixty-five feet to first limb, over 100 feet high. A rapid grower and hardy. 
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