NUT TREE SPECIALIST 
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Are Grafted Northern Nut Trees Appreciated? 
It is only in the lest few years that people in the northern states have 
begun to wake up to the advantages offered in the grafted nut trees and to 
appreciate what I have been giving them. This is due to the trees coining 
into bearing generally over the country. The seedling fellows arc of course 
still on the job, but they are having much “harder sledding” than formerly, 
and with thousands of my grafted trees coming into bearing now and proving 
their superiority in every way, the decreasing demand for seedling trees will 
soon discourage the growing of these trees and they will be discontinued, 
just as happened with the pecan in the south and the English walnut in the 
west. Any nurseryman offering seedling pecan trees in the south or seedling 
English walnut trees in the west at the present time, would not only find 
no market for his product but would be held up to ridicule. This, when only 
a few years ago, seedling trees were advocated and largely planted. Even 
after grafted or budded trees were available in quantity many people listened 
to the seedling fellows who made extravagant claims for their trees, and 
planted seedlings, and the nurserymen growing these trees “died hard”, after 
putting up a big fight in their defense, as these seedling trees, costing com¬ 
paratively little to grow, were very profitable. 
Being one of the original propagators of the pecan in the south and the 
first extensive propagator of these trees, both north and south, I am familiar 
with the devedopment of the industry. The rapid development of the pecan 
industiy and the profits now being derived from good orchards of budded 
or grafted trees, is a matter of common knowledge and it is needless for 
me to dwell upon that, but I am naturally proud of the part T contributed 
to its development. A few seedling fellows arc still growing and selling 
seedling nut trees in the northern section but under variety names or other¬ 
wise trying to make the buyer think he is getting grafted or budded trees, 
and I would warn those buying nut trees to be sure they arc getting grafted 
or budded trees of approved varieties before placing their orders. 
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 
arc 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 
are doing well in many cases on the heavy black soils of Jnd., Ill., Iowa, Mo., 
and Kans., where few fruit trees can be grown, also on a great variety of soils, 
including 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 docs well from Canada to Florida* 
and it is believed it will do well anywhere the black walnut grows. 
