Nut 
Department 
FILBERT (Corylus avellana) 
UT culture in the United States is in its infancy, although great strides are being made, 
both in the number of nut trees planted and improvement in variety and quality. 
The constant and growing demand for nuts, and the immense quantities of them yearly 
imported* to meet it have given a great impetus to the planting of nut-bearing trees. So 
palatable and wholesome are the nut-kernels that they should become a staple article of food here as in 
Europe. The returns from established nut-bearing orchards, as well as numerous experiments, 
show plainly how successful nut culture may be made in America. Most farms contain land that would 
pay better planted in nut-bearing trees than in anything else; the nuts, in many cases, paying better than 
farm crops or fruit, while the trees are growing into valuable timber; at the same time the cost of main¬ 
tenance is insignificant as compared with a fruit orchard. 
Until recently little attention has been given to the Nut Fruits. This is unaccountable, consider¬ 
ing the pleasure and profit that may be derived from their cultivation, which is, in fact, simplicity itself, 
requiring only ordinary labor and little expense. 
When the up-keep and care of fruit orchards is considered, it is easily demonstrated that the com¬ 
mercial cultivation of Walnuts, Pecanfc, and Chestnuts offers the safest and most permanent investments, 
with quick and generous returns. 
Nursery production of these hardy, acclimated varieties of Nut trees is attended by more or less 
difficulty and greater cost, but they relieve the planter of all anxiety. He may leave them out in the rain 
and frost; almost forgetting them, in fact, and there he will find them in a few years, each tree yielding 
nuts that will bring a larger dividend than a thousand dollars in the bank. Even a few carefully selected 
nut trees will prove a great heritage. 
The Rural New Yorker says: “Nut growing is a business which is to be a great feature of future 
farming. * * * If you plant a nut grove to-day, before it comes to bearing you will find demand ahead of 
supply. A few men realize what is coming and are interesting themselves in improved varieties of nuts 
— such as hickories, chestnuts or pecans.” 
From the American Cultivator: “Fortunes are sure to be accumulated by growers of nuts who en¬ 
gage largely and intelligently in the business. * * * No industry embodies to a greater degree the elements 
of safety, profit and permanence as an investment. Thousands of people all over our land can make their 
homes more pleasant and their farms places of increased profit by planting the nut trees best suited to their 
locality.” 
All of the varieties described in the following pages may be relied upon to be exactly as represented, 
and it is our honest desire to make the planter of nut-bearing trees more independent finan¬ 
cially, if he plants for profit, and happier if he plants for pleasure; and last but not least, nothing can be 
more interesting or yield greater pleasure than nut trees about the home, as many kinds form the most 
beautiful shade trees in addition to producing valuable crops of nuts. 
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