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WALNUTS 
Black Walnut <JugIaiis Nigra) — This spe- 
cies is a common and stately forest trep 
in the Middle and Western states; grows 
from forty to sixty feet high; has an 
open, spreading head and is rapid in 
growth; produces large crops of nuts 
with rough hard shell containing rich 
oily kernels of fine flavor. 
Japanese Varieties 
Cordiformis — This is as its name indicates, 
a heart-shaped nut, meats are large, 
good quality and easily removed; flavor 
is between that of an English Walnut 
and a Butternut: used extensively by 
confectioners. 
Sieboldiana — If it produced no nuts, it 
would be well worth cultivating as an 
ornamental tree; is a vigorous grower 
and produces nuts borne in clusters of 
12 to 15 each; has a smooth, shell, 
thiclter than the English, much reseni - 
bling Pecans; meat is sweet and good 
flavor; tree is perfectly hardy. 
PECANS 
Pecan culture offers greater inducements, per- 
haps, than any other line of horticulture, 
when we consider the permanency of the tree 
and its comparative freedom from disease 
and insect pests , together with its comi,ar- 
atively regular bearing habit of a very super- 
ior and high priced product. With the trees 
planted fifty feet apart, the cost of planting 
and after care is comparatively light and the 
land may be cropped for several years, allow- 
ing the trees more room as they grow and 
need it. 
Good budded or grafted trees of good prolific 
varieties properly planted and cared for under 
proper conditions, usually begin to bear a few 
nuts in five or six years after planting, and 
should produce a profitable crop in eight or 
ten years from planting, after which the yield 
Pecan 
increases rapidly, so that it is not only pos- 
sible, but probable, that the orchard would 
produce in one year a crop which would sell 
for as much or more than the entire cost of 
growing the orchard, when the trees were 
fifteen to twenty years old. 
The pecan can doubtless be grown with more 
or less success anywhere where cotton is 
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Japanese Walnut — Cordiformis 
grown, and special varieties will doubtless 
succeed farther north, but if it is desired to 
grow them for marltet on a large scale it is 
advisable to plant in the lower half of the 
Gulf Coast States, as here they attain to their 
highest development, and the tree is of much 
more rapid growth than farther North. Good 
crops are being produced in Southern Mis- 
souri and elsewhere along the same pai-allel. 
There is a great diversity of opinion as to the 
best soils for the growing of pecans, and while 
we believe that they can be successfully grown 
on our rich, moist, alluvial soils with less 
care and expense, after the trees are well 
established, there is no question but that they 
can be grown profitably on the uplands and 
light, sandy loam soils. 
The pecan is a very deep-rooted, hardy, long- 
lived tree, and is infested with fewer insect 
pests or diseases, perhaps, than any other 
fruit or nut tree of anything like equal im- 
portance; and when planted on land naturally 
rich and moist, the tree will thrive with little 
care or attention after well established, but 
there is no tree that responds more liberally 
to good treatment than does the pecan. The 
trees should always have good care until well 
established, and even on land naturally rich, 
a little fertilizer or stable manure will help 
the trees to form a new root system and get 
into vigorous growth. The tree should be 
allowed to grow at will for a year or two or 
until it has put out a good root system and is 
making a vigorous growth. Pruning and try- 
ing to shape or head up the tree before it has 
recovered fully from transplanting will only 
retard the root development and subsequent 
growth. After the tree has recovered fully 
from transplanting and Is growing vigorously, 
they may be made to shape up and head as 
we wish, after which no pruning Is needed, 
unless it be to remove an interfering limb 
occasionally. We are prepared to furnish the 
best seedling and grafted stock. 
MOUNT ARBOR NURSERIES, SHENANDOAH, IOWA 
