NUT TRUE SPECIALIST 
Growing Nut Trees with Superior Roots 
Although nut trees make good roots here without special attention, we 
greatly improve this by cutting the tap roots of the young trees when they are 
one or two years old. Although new tap roots are usually formed, (usually 
two or three instead of one) the severing of the tap roots causes the trees to 
make more and better lateral roots which make for easier and safer trans¬ 
planting. Such trees are not obtainable elsewhere. 
Plant Only Budded or Grafted Trees 
I am sometimes asked what are the advantages of budded or grafted trees 
over seedlings. The difference is the same as with fruit trees. Varieties of 
either fruit or nuts can only be perpetuated ly budding or grafting. If we 
want a Baldwin apple orchard we do not attempt to grow the trees by planting 
Baldwin apple seed, because we know that these seedlings will not hold true 
to type or variety, and that fruit of all sizes, shapes and colors will be produced 
when the trees come into learing. We also know that these seedling trees 
will vary as much in vigor and productiveness, as in the fruit borne, and that 
they will take two or three times as long to come into bearing as do the 
grafted or budded trees. The same applies to nuts and it would be just as 
reasonable to plant a seedling apple orchard as to plant a seedling nut orchard. 
The only difference is, grafted varieties of nuts have not been available till 
recent years aiid people have become accustomed to planting seedling trees. 
By growing grafted or budded trees of improved varieties of nuts, we put nut 
culture on the same plane with fruit growing and there is nothing in the 
orchard line that promises greater returns to the orehardist than the planting 
of these improved, budded and grafted vnr ! eiio«. 
Grafted English Walnut Tree planted in the poultry yard, Spring, 1913. Bewail bearing at 
three vears old and has borne every year since. Produced nearly a half bushel of fine nuts 
Fall. 1918. The owner Benj. Mylin, was 68 years old when he planted this tree, but he bar. 
I ved t'* enjoy the fruits thereof and to jrivc inanv line nuts to his friends. 
