GLEN BROTHERS —GLENWOOD NURSERY 
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K'lr from heiiiK a (k*trimeii.t to tlu* nut trees, this inter-cropping is, on 
the contrary, actually heneficial to the trees, i)ccause of the extra cultiva¬ 
tion given the land. A .s])ace of six or eight feet, at least, should i)e 
lett around the base of eacli tree to iiennit cultivation. Grains and 
grasses should never l)e used for inter-crc^pping with nut trees. 
1 he character ()f the crops to he grown in the young orchartl must 
necessarily (lepend soniewhat upon the locality and character of the soil, 
hnt a sufKicient variety is available. 
In m.iny nut orchards, fruit trees — such as aj)j)le, ])each, pear, and 
plum—are set out lietween the nut trees, and by the time the latter'need 
additional room, the smaller fruit trees will have outlived their usefulness 
and may be uprooted without any great loss. 
NUT TREES FOR ORNAMENT 
Mere bunches of leaves.” 'I'hus the purely- urnamental tree is 
characterized by a well-known liorticulturist whose enthusiasm for the 
Aorthem \ut Tree has perhaps somewhat prcjudicecl his judgment. 
1 et mere bunches of leaves” they are — the maple, elm, beach—for they 
serve no purjiose save that of ornament and shade. 
Let the next tree you set out in your gartlen. lawn, (.r roadside be a 
nut tree. I hen. beside sentiment and shade, you will have each year a 
I)ienteous harvest of delicious, health-giving, money-making fruit, and 
V()u will have sacrificed nothing of beauty or shade. For, the English 
Walnut, the Pecan, and the Chestnut, are not surpassed by any purely 
<<rnamental tree for billowy foliage, symmetry of growth or spread of 
branche.s. and the former have an additional advantage in being subject 
to tewei and more readily controlled parasitic enemies than most other 
trees. 
What IS probably a more important consideration, nut trees add 
each year an api)rcciable sum to the value of any property. 
"-rl’’ ‘‘ t''*-’ Anierican Pomoiogical 
. tKt\ states 1 here are alidut two acres in my town lot wliicli are 
jiractically hon ered by I’ecan Trees, some of them liavinR just come 
m o lieannK, In all, there .are twenty-two of these trees, twenty of 
whicli m 1909 bore more or less tints. The net sales from these tCcs 
that year amonnted to four hundred dollars.” A fair rental is it not 
for ummiiroved property? ’ ' 
Mr paper: "Living on an adjoining lot to me is 
. Ir. K. i owtil. who has a seedling tree growing in his back yard. This 
tree i.s from a nut i)lanted in 1887. Vor a seedling, this is an excei>tion 
both m regularity and quantity of its product. Fnr the last three years 
it has borne an average o{ over 400 pounds of nuts i>er vear. The 
surplus, aiiove what the family used for domestic puri)()ses', was sold 
foi tw'enty-fivc cents per imund.” It is not known what average price 
the entire crop might have brought, but as the poorer (luality nuts were 
probably used by the family it would be safe to estimate the whole crop 
at 20c a pound. H.ur hundred pounds (5^. 20 ccnts-$80 a year from a 
P . loi ' "■"‘'Lures no attention but to gather the nuts when 
tficj tall. Its a ijretty resjiectablc income from a "shade” tree. 
Plant .shade trees, by all means, but plant the kind that will pay you 
yatisSln.”^' sentiment and ocular 
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