PAPER-SHELL PECANS FOR 
STUART 
MANTURA 
APPOMATTOX 
ZERO CLIMATES 
INDIANA 
MONEYMAKER 
Northern-Grown Pecans—Northern-Grown Seedlings—Grown from Northern 
Grown Nuts—Budded from Northern Bearing Trees 
Interest in the growing of pecans is no longer confined to the Southern states, but is a success far 
beyond the limits of what has heretofore been known as “The Pecan Area." The large number of in¬ 
terested parties here in the North who desire to plant hardy pecan trees adapted to the middle and Northern 
states, has stimulated experiments which have extended over several years and necessitated the expend¬ 
iture of large sums of money. The results, however, have been eminently satisfactory, and we are at 
last able to offer pecan trees that are not only hardy in the Northern states but will produce and ripen 
their fruit. 
The American Nut and Fruit Journal , December, 1912, says: “There is no doubt that within a 
few years pecans will be grown in the North not only in yards and gardens and along avenues, but 
in commercial orchards as well. The period for the beginning of these commercial plantings will depend 
only upon the supply of trees propagated from hardy varieties that are suited to these localities, for it 
is to the hardy types, propagated and grown by right methods, that growers will have to look for success. 
“Pecan trees for successful culture in the North must be of hardy, early maturing varieties, budded 
on stocks from Northern pecans and grown in nurseries under suitable climatic conditions. The 
successful production of large Southern varieties in the North can hardly be expected except under 
the most favorable conditions of soil, location and season; and there seems no good reason for planting 
Southern pecans far north except in an experimental way, for there are Northern varieties now being prop¬ 
agated that are equal to many of the standard Southern sorts in quality and not much below them in size. 
They will prove to be as large in the North as Southern varieties grown in the same locality, and the trees 
will be hardier and more apt to bear regularly." 
It has already been demonstrated that pecan trees for successful culture in the North must be of 
hardy varieties, budded on stock grown from Northern pecans, and grown under Northern conditions, 
that it is a waste of time and money to plant pecan trees, except these Northern-grown varieties, in any 
locality where they have to contend with severe climatic conditions. Dr. Robt. T. Morris, an eminent 
authority, says that pecans for Northern planting should be budded on stock from Indiana, Illinois and 
Kentucky. 
These Northern-grown varieties have been planted in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, 
Indiana and other Northern and Western states, and proved hardy there, withstanding temperatures 
far below zero without any injury. The “Indiana" and “Busseron," natives of the state of Indiana, are 
so hardy that, properly grown, they may be planted in Northern states with the same assurance of suc¬ 
cessful fruiting as apple trees. 
Hardy stocks on which these trees are grown are produced by planting nuts from far Northern 
states and growing the seedlings under Northern conditions. The seedlings are budded when two or three 
years old. Trees from these Northern nuts never “winter-kill," even with low temperatures and 
variable weather conditions in the spring, as has been demonstrated with 20,000 seedlings from 
Indiana nuts planted in four different years and grown under Northern conditions. Not one was ever 
found to “winter-kill." 
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