Snyder Bros. (Inc.), Center Point, Iowa 
Nut Trees 
for the nuts alone. The use of walnut meats is rapidly increasing in ice cream, 
candy, and cakes, for no other nut, except the hickory, retains its flavor so well after 
heating. In the landscape the grafted varieties are superior, having more leaflets 
and they are a darker, glossier green than those of the seedling trees. 
Thomas is the best known variety and succeeds over a wide territory. The tree 
is hardy, very vigorous, productive, and a very young bearer, switches one year old 
often bearing the following season. The nuts are large and fairly thin shelled. 
Kernels come out easily and a bushel yields ten pounds or more meats of fine quality. 
Ohio is a close rival of the Thomas, and by some is considered rather superior to 
it in certain respects. 
Stabler is a native of Maryland, and not as hardy as Thomas or Ohio. The tree 
is bushy and comparatively slow growing. The nut is of fair size, very thin shelled, 
and often not divided, so the meats can be extracted in one piece. 
Rowher scored nine points more than Thomas in the 1926 contest of the Northern 
Nut Growers’ Association. Originating in Northern Iowa, it certainly is hardier. 
Bontz is a variety from Illinois with a good record for productiveness. The nuts 
score equal to Thomas and yield a higher percentage of quarters. 
Besides the kinds listed above, a few trees are available of Deming Purple, 
Stambaugh, Creitz, Galloway, and others more recently discovered, and will be 
quoted on application. 
PRICES all varieties— 6-8 ft. 5-6 ft. 4-5 ft. 3-4 ft. 2-3 ft. 
$2.50 $2.00 $1.50 $1.25 $1.00 
CHESTNUTS are the most dependable bearers of the food-producing nut trees. 
They bloom very late, so escape the frost injury which occasionally destroys the crop 
on other nut and fruit trees. 
The grafted varieties are much more fruitful than seedling trees, but are usually 
self-sterile and several kinds should be grouped together to insure fertilization. 
All the varieties offered are considerably larger than the common American 
Chestnut and are of splendid quality. They differ mostly in appearance or a little 
in season of ripening. 
Morris No. 2 is a Chinquapin Hybrid. Very small trees bear many small burrs 
with nuts resembling chinquapins in shape and quality, but larger. 
Other Varieties. A few trees are available of Progress, Gibbons, Rochester, 
Puller, Lovette, and others. 
PRICES— 5-6 ft. 4-5 ft. 3-4 ft. 2-3 ft. 
Dan Patch _ $2.00 $1.75 $1.50 _ 
Morris No. 2 1.50 $1.25 
No. 3 _ _ _ 1.75 1.50 
No. 57 _ 2.00 1.75 1.50 1.25 
Progress ... __ _ 2.00 
Van Fleet _ 2.00 1.75 1.50 1.25 
HICKORIES, HICCANS, and PECANS. It takes so long to get stocks large 
enough to graft, and they are difficult enough to propagate that these trees will be 
scarce for a long time. A very few trees of several varieties not listed are avail¬ 
able in small numbers. These include Iowa (a large Shellbark), the hardy Northern 
Pecans, and various hickories. 
Beaver and Fairbanks are rapid growing very productive hybrids of the 
Bitternut and Shagbark. The nuts are large, attractive, thin shelled and good. 
Stratford is one of the earliest and heaviest bearing Sliagbarks. The smooth 
white nuts crack very easily and have splendid quality. 
Vest and Hand are very thin, ridged shelled, Sliagbarks of very fine quality. 
Hagen is a rapid growing pure Shagbark. The meats easily crack out in halves 
and are unexcelled in richness and flavor. 
Des Moines and Burlington are rapid growing Hiccans, or hybrids of the Hickory 
and Pecan. The large brown nuts are sharp pointed, a little thicker shelled than 
Pecans, but have no bitter inner shell. The meats partake of the Hickory flavor 
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