Snyder Bros. (Inc.), Center Point, Iowa 
Nut Trees 
A few trees are available of Galloway, Harris, and others which will be 
quoted on application. 
PRICES of above. See sizes 5-6 ft. 4-5 ft. 3-4 ft. 2-3 ft. 
available after each variety.$2.00 $1.75 $1.50 $1.25 
Seedlings of Thomas. Besides the ordinary walnut seedlings listed under 
Forest Tree Seedlings, we have seedlings of Thomas. These are more thrifty 
than those grown from ordinary seed, and while they will not come true, 
should be considerably better than the average. 
$1.25 per 10 $10.00 per 100 
CHESTNUTS are the most dependable bearers of the food producing trees. 
They bloom very late, so escape the frost injury which occasionally destroys 
the crops of other nut and fruit trees, and they endure drought well. No graft¬ 
ed trees are available for the spring of 1936, but a good supply of one-year 
seedlings are available. These are grown from seed of old trees in this locality, 
very hardy, and far removed from chestnut blight. They are splendid for 
establishing groves or orchards to be grafted later to the larger, more productive 
kinds. 
One-year seedlings 12-15 in.60c per dozen $4.50 per 100 
One-year seedlings 15-20 in.75c per dozen $6.00 per 100 
HICKORIES, HICCANS, and PECANS. No nuts have a better flavor than 
the shagbark hickory, and none carries its flavor through the process of baking 
so well. Once the trees are well established, they are very persistant, as many 
early settlers found out when they attempted to kill out a grove of hickories. 
Mature trees have been known to produce as many as ten bushels of hulled 
nuts per tree in one crop. 
Pecans are faster growing than shagbarks, and require a longer season in 
which to ripen. The trees will stand North of where the nuts can be expected 
to ripen most seasons. Really, Pecans as nut producers have little value in 
Central Iowa, but as shade and ornamental trees they are well worth planting. 
Hiccans are crosses of the hickories and pecans, and usually ripen in Central 
Iowa. The nuts are larger than the Northern pecans, do not have a bitter inner 
shell, and partake of the hickory flavor, so are better than pecans. 
The supply of grafted hickories is always limited, and particularly so after 
the series of dry seasons, which made propagation difficult. It takes so long to 
get hickory stocks large enough to graft that there is no prospect of the grafted 
trees becoming cheap. A very few other kinds are available besides those listed 
below. 
Creager comes from Northern Iowa and is one of the most rapid growing 
and beautiful trees among the hickories. The nuts are small, but of splendid 
quality, crack out nicely, are produced very freely, and keep sweet a long time. 
Fairbanks, Bestall, and Beaver are rapid growing, young bearing productive 
hybrids of the bitternut and shagbark. The nuts are large, thin-shelled and 
quite good quality. When first tasted, one notices a slight bitterness, which dis¬ 
appears in baking or as more are eaten raw. Fairbanks has given such good 
satisfaction that we consider it one of the most dependable kinds. Apparently 
it bears well when considerably removed from other kinds. 
Vest and Hand are similar shagbarks with very thin, ridged shells and meats 
of splendid quality. Hand bears quite young and in this way we believe is the . 
better of the two. 
45 
