NUT TREE SPECIALIST 
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Grafted nut trees of approved varieties may be had from several other 
propagators; also from several nurserymen who we supply with these trees. 
The above is from a photo of ail English Walnut tree growing on the farm of Jacob Hander, 
Berks Co., Pa. This tree is 210 years old; the trunk measures IS feet in circumference three 
feet above the ground; spread 92 feet and 100 feet high. An idea may be had of its size from 
the men under it to the left. Mr. Bauder says this tree has produced 25 bushels of nuts in a 
single crop. Timber men who have looked at it recently say it is probably worth $500 foe 
lumber for the manufacture of fine Circassian walnut furniture. 
Soil, Locations and Climatological Data 
Some people seem to think that to succeed with nut trees requires some 
particular kind of soils or location. The fact is, most of the nut bearing trees 
are less exacting in their soil and climatic requirements than arc our more com¬ 
mon fruit trees, and these trees will often succeed where fruit trees would fail. 
This is especially true of the black walnut, heart nut and pecan. These trees arc 
doing well in many cases on the heavy black soils of Ind., 111., Iowa, Mo., and 
Kans., where few fruit trees can be grown, also on a great variety of soils, in¬ 
cluding light sandy soils, if the fertility of the soil is kept up. 
THE BLACK WALNUT grows naturally from Canada to Florida, and 
from Maine to the Great Divide, and on about all kinds of soils and locations. 
The climate of Colorado is especially trying on trees but the black walnut is do¬ 
ing well there. My grafted trees arc also doing well in Washington and Oregon. 
THE HEART NUT is a sport or variation from the Japanese walnut; 
juglans sieboldii. The tree is very hardy and does well from Canada to Florida; 
and it is believed it will do well anywhere the black walnut grows. 
THE NORTHERN PECANS are as hardy as the other hickories and in 
this regard should not be confused with the southern pecan. In a wild or 
natural state, the pecan grows from Terre Haute, Ind., and Clinton, Iowa, on 
the north, to the Gulf Coast on the south. The tree grows in the river bottoms 
and will succeed on land that is too low and damp for most trees. Because of 
