NUT TREE SPECIALIST 
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Growing Nut Trees with Superior Roots 
Although conditions here are very favorable lor both root and top de¬ 
velopment, we greatly improve the root system by an improved method of 
transplanting the young trees. These trees, as 1 grow them, have more com¬ 
pact and much better root systems. This adds considerably to the cost of 
the trees but is necessary if the trees arc to be transplanted successfully 
later on. Such trees are not obtainable elsewhere. 
Plant Only Budded or Grafted Trees 
I am sometimes asked what arc 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 impioved 
budded and grafted varieties. 
One of my En^ish WaJnut Trees eitfht years old on the famous Grand View Poultry Farms, 
Aurora, N. Y. Be sure to read Mr. Wyckoffs’ letter on pa«e 22. 
