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Nut Trees 
Neosho, Mo, 
Owing to the increased demand for nut trees, we have made arrangements 
to have select budded or grafted varieties sent direct frcm a nurseryman who 
has specialized in gi owing nut trees foi over twenty years. His soil and climatic 
conditions are peculiaily favorable for growing very vigorous and stocky trees 
Indiana Pecan with well-ripened wood growth. He severs the tap-roots when the trees are one 
or two years old, causing the formation of more and better lateral roots, which make for easier and safer 
transplanting. Such trees are not now obtainable from any other nursery that grows nut trees. Every 
tree is either budded or grafted with strains of known value. 
In the Garden Magazine for Odtober, 1918, Dr. Robert 
T. Morris, one of the organizers and the first president of the 
Northern Nut-Growers' Association, writes: 
"One reason why the worn-out pastures of New York 
and New England are not yielding fifty dollars' worth cf nuts 
per acre per year is because the effort required would be so 
much less than the effort required for obtaining twenty-five 
dollars per acre per year for crops of old-fashioned foodstuffs. 
The proposition is such an easy one that men look askance 
at it. Down in Louisiana they teU of an old colored man 
who had always worked very hard at raising cotton and corn 
on his little property and managed to give his family a 
fair living during his days of greatest activitj'. Now, how- 
ever, that he is old and all crippled up with rheumatism 
and no longer able to work, sbc pecan trees which he 
planted bring his family three 
times as large an income as 
he was able to obtain when 
laboring. The same story might as well come out of New 
England at some later day." 
The varieties listed are adapted for sections where hardy 
varieties are required. The varieties of pecan planted in 
Southern States, where the industry is highly successful, 
would not do well in colder climates. The numbers in the 
following table correspond to tliose on the map of horticult- 
ural divisions shown on page 8. Where the sweet cherry 
does well, the English Walnut will also succeed. The Eng- 
lish Walnut does well in most parts of sections 2 and 4 m 
the East, but on alluvial lands in the southern parts of Indi- 
ana and Illinois it often fails to do well. It grows well in the 
Ozarks at an elevation of 1,550 feet, but fails in the Central 
West, where excessive summer heat prevails. The Pecan is 
in bearing at Lincoln, Nebraska, and as far north as Charles 
City, Iowa. The Chestnut wants light, well-drained soil 
for best results. It is doing well at Charles City, Iowa, at 
Mountain Grove, and at Olden in Missouri. 
English Walnuts 
Pecans 
Black Walnut 
Shagbarks 
Chestnut 
Highly Successful . . . 
16 
4 
2, 3, 4 
2, 4,8 
Well Recommended. . 
2. 4, 14, 15 
3, 5, 7, 8 
5, 7, 8, 14, 16 
3 
2, 4 
Known to Succeed. . . 
3, 12, 17 
14, 16 
3, 8 
Worthy of Trial 
5, 7, 11 
2, 10, 11, 
12, 15, 17 
9, 10, 11, 
12, 15, 17 
9, 14 
7. 11 
PECAN 
Buflseron One of the best Indiana varieties. Large> 
good quality, fine appeal ance. 
Butterlck Large, rcalpaper-sbell; kernel full, plump 
excellent quality. Very vigorous and pro- 
ductive. Highly desirable for market or home use. 
Greenrivei Medium size; kernel very plump and 
full, easily extracted and escelleot qual- 
ity — one of the bert for home use. 
TREES 
Indiana Lai^e* shell s^oftf kernel full and very good 
quality* Eiceptlonalbearet. First choice 
for commercial planting. 
Niblack Medium to large: shell tbin; kernel very 
plump and excellent quality, and cracks 
out in perfect halves. Highly recommended for home 
use or market purposes. 
Posey One of the largest and finest. A paper-shell; 
kernel very good quality and easily eitracted* 
THE ENGLISH OR PERSUN WALNUT 
Plant only on land where apple or similar fruiti Franquette 
succeed and where the climate is not too severe to 
grow and fruit the peach successfully. This applies 
only to budded or grafted walnut of known hardy 
and vigorous stocks. They bear early, but should 
not be allowed to bear heavily when very young; 
otherwise the tiees willbe dwarfed. 
AMERICAN BLACK WALNUT 
Thomas Very large; large full kernel of excellent 
French origin; large, attractive; kernel 
large, plump, very good quality. 
Mayette French origin; quite large and smooth, 
with large, plump kernel of excellent qual- 
ity, considered the finest walnut. Bears very young. 
Bush Eaitem origin. Medium to large; fullkernel 
of good quality. The first Eastern variety to 
be propagated. 
These trees need littip or no attention and may be 
planted on rough land or along fences and ditches 
where it would not be practicable to plant trees re- 
quiring more attention. It is conservatively estimated 
that if one plants, say 1.000 trees of the improved 
varieties of the black walnut and gives them seme 
atteotion until established, when in good bearing they 
will return an annual revenue of at least $10.00 per 
tree in "Nut Meats." (The Black Walnuts listed 
under Ornamentals are grown from seed and are not 
recommended for planting for nuts, as they may not 
produce nuts of the best quality.) 
CHESTNUT 
The Fuller and the Progreis are the finest vaiietiea 
ever originated. Both extra fine quality. Fuller is 
the largest. Should not be planted where the native 
wild chestnut trees are blighting. 
quality. Bears early and abundantly. 
Ohio 
(Origin, Ohio.) Medium siie, thin shell, ker- 
nel lull and of excellent quality. Cracks easily 
into halves. 
Stabler (Origin, Maryland.) A remarkably good nut 
of superb cracking quality. Dwarfish, stocky 
grower. Very ornamental. 
CHINQUAPIN 
Bush Hybrid Hybrid of bush chinquapin and sweet 
chestnut. Nut nearly as large as na- 
tive chestnut; better quality than any chestnut. A 
dwarfish tree and bears quite yqjung. 
Slers Hybrid Sbagbark 
SHAGBARK HICKORY 
Cross between the shagbark and butternut, 
easily. Veiy rapid grower, 
Very good quality. Nut large, cracks 
DISTANCE FOR PLANTING 
Pecans and Black Walnuts 50 to 60 feet apart 
English Walnuts 40 to 50 feet apart 
Pecans, English and Black Walnuts do not need all the space for 12 to 15 yeflrs,aDd 
fillers of smaller-prowing fruit trees can be planted between them to good advantage; also 
any cultivated farm or garden crop. 
Planting instructions are sent with every shipment of nut tJees. 
For prices, see opposile page 
