NUT TREE SPECIALIST 
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“Tree crops” will be the slogan of the future and by far tlie most import¬ 
ant of these are the nut bearing trees. The apple and the peach are good to 
eat to be sure, but they have little actual food value in comparison to nuts as 
the analysis shows. Nuts are the most concentrated natural food known. They 
are ready to serve as the kernels come from the shell or they may be made up 
into various food forms combined with other materials, for which they arc ad¬ 
mirably adapted, since they are very rich and have a high protein and fat con¬ 
tent and most foods are deficient in these elements. 
The Demand for Nuts 
The production of nuts has not kept pace with consumption in this country 
and the demand very greatly exceeds the supply. If the supply of common 
wild nuts that go to make up the bulk of our supply at the present time were 
of fine budded or grafted sorts, consumption of nuts would be twenty times as 
great as it is today, provided, of course the supply was available, ancl at a rea¬ 
sonable price. 
Importation of nuts into the U. S. increased from $8,549,997.00 in 1909, to 
$57,499,040.00 in 1919, as the following statistics show. 
Value of nuts imported into the United States from 1909 to 1919 inclusive 
compiled by the Federal Department of Statistics: 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
$ 8,549,997 
$12,775,196 
$14,265,5 72 
$15,626,485 
$13,508,307 
$19,815,713 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
$16,865,244 
$20,594,434 
$33,667,681 
$49,930,283 
$57,499,040 
DISTANCE FOR PLANTING. Pecans and black walnuts 50 to 60 feet 
apart; English walnuts 40 to 50 feet apart; filberts and almonds, 15 to 20 feet 
apart. 
Pecans, English and black walnuts do not need all of the room given them 
for 12 or 15 years, and fillers of smaller growing nut or fruit trees may be 
planted between them to good advantage; also any cultivated farm or garden 
crop may be planted between the trees, as they arc little in the way of cultiva¬ 
tion for several years. 
MY NURSERIES ARE LOCATED three miles south of Lancaster, in a 
section noted for its productive soil. We have the main lines of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania and the Reading railroads which insure the prompt delivery of shipments 
at nominal rates. 
VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME and personal inspection of stock 
is invited. The Quarryvillc and Strasburg trolley cars, leaving Lancaster every 
half hour, pass the nurseries. 
I GUARANTEE ALL TREES sent out to be well grown and of the size 
and quality specified, but claims for stock not satisfactory, must be made 
promptly upon receipt of the same. 
WHEN TO PLANT: My hardy Pennsylvania grown trees may be plant¬ 
ed either spring or fall. Trees may be planted any time while dormant and 
when the ground is not frozen. Shipping season in the fall, October 20th to 
December 15th, and in the spring, March 15th to June 1st. Trees for late spring 
shipments arc held in my cold cellars, perfectly dormant, till June 1st to 10th. 
Important Information 
The propagation of nut trees is a highly specialized work and one that 
must be learned from the “ground up” if one is to succeed. These trees can 
not be propagated by ordinary methods as employed in the propagation of fruit 
trees, and even with the methods that I have perfected, results arc always un¬ 
certain and not infrequently disappointing. The general nurserymen arc not 
therefore propagating nut trees by budding or grafting and can hardly be ex¬ 
pected to do so. 
