NUT TREE SPECIALIST 
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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 arc 
one or two years old. Although new tap roots arc 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 transplant¬ 
ing. 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 by 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 bearing. 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 
and 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 orchardist than the planting of these improved, 
budded and grafted varieties. 
Grafted English Walnut Tree planted in the poultry yard, Spring, 1913. Began bearing at 
three years 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 has lived to 
enjoy the fruits thereof and to give many fine nuts to his friends. 
