Successful Nut Culture in the North 
T he Nut Area or “Nut Belt” has moved northward! Just what 
significance that fact carries in your mind depends on how well 
acquainted you are with the great importance and profitableness 
q£ nut-growing as an industry, and how well you appreciate the 
desirability and advantages of purely incidental nut-growing; that is, 
the few trees you may set out in your door-yard and lawn principally 
for the purpose of ornament and shade. 
The experimental stage is past. The “Nut Belt” has moved north. 
It is now established in the North and the fact is testified to by more 
or less extensive Pecan Orchards and English Walnut Orchards in 
New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island, 
Connecticut and other northern states. 
But only a beginning has been made, and a small one at that. 
Enough has been done to establish the entire practicability of Northern 
Nut Growing on a commercial scale; hardy varieties of the Pecan and 
English Walnut have been time-tested and found worthy in every 
respect. But the quantity of nuts at present produced in the north is 
negligible. 
To the northern orchardist and farmer who is perhaps familiar with 
the commercial aspects of nut culture, the fact is deeply significant. For, 
to him, it means the opening of a new and richly remunerative use for 
at least a part of his land now devoted to less lucrative uses. And to the 
horticulturist, it means a rich reward for long years of painstaking 
labor and patient waiting for the results of countless careful experiments. 
As an industry, Nut Culture in the United States, North and South, 
is but the merest infant. In the face of a constantly and rapidly increas¬ 
ing consumption, we do not begin to supply the domestic market, but 
are forced to import our principal supply. 
Nut growing, as an industry, has a wonderful future in the United 
States, and for confirmation of this one has only to look at the astonish¬ 
ingly rapid increase in our importations of nuts, the cause for which is 
to be found in the fast growing appreciation of the high food value and 
exceptional palatability of the product. 
Already the alluring prospects of the situation have been made the 
theme of many prospectuses of so-called “nut promotions,” which are in 
reality nothing more nor less than land promotions, most of which it 
is feared are of exceedingly doubtful investment value, it being the 
practice to dispose of otherwise unsaleable and practically valueless 
lands under the guise of “Pecan Plantations” or “Apple Orchards,” as 
the case may be. 
Glen Brothers wish it understood that they have no interest what¬ 
ever in any of these land promotions, and that their sole business is the 
propagating and selling of nursery stock. Besides nut trees, we propagate 
and sell deciduous and evergreen trees for ornamental purposes, plants, 
shrubs, and fruit tree stock of practically every description. We do not 
care where you plant your nut trees, beyond recognizing a certain 
mutuality of interest in the successful growth of whatever nursery stock 
you may purchase from us. It is our desire to aid you in the selection 
of varieties best suited to your locality and to lend all assistance in our 
power to secure the ultimate success of your planting, whatever and 
wherever it may be. 
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