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J. F. JONES, LANCASTER, PA. 
should be more largely grown. When allowed to ripen on the tree, the fruit 
is very sweet, rich and of excellent quality. Simply packed down in sugar 
the fruit keeps for months in excellent condition. 
EARLY GOLDEN. A very early sort and of special value for market- 
Mr. E. A. Riehl stated several years ago that the Early Golden persimmon 
was the most profitable fruit that he grew. He sent them to the St. Louis 
market. A safe variety to plant farther north. 
JOSEPHINE. A fine fruit and productive tree. Does fine here. 
LAMBERT. From Hiawatha, Kans. The largest fruited native per¬ 
simmon that I have seen. The fruit is very large, yet of high color and 
excellent quality. Does fine here. The most rapid growing and the tallest 
tree of all. Foliage very large and the tree very ornamental. 
Fine trees 5 to 7 feet, $2.00 each; $20.00 per dozen. 
4 to 5 “ 1.75 “ 17.50 “ 
3 to 4 “ .1.50 “ 15.00 “ 
The Heart Nut 
For the season of 1923-24 I had only a few hundred heart nut trees and. 
these were all sold fall 1923. 
This is one of the most difficult to propagate and I shall probably have 
no trees to offer before 1925. 
How to Succeed with Nut Trees 
Because we see the black walnut, the pecan and the hickories growing in a 
wild or natural state, and occasionally bearing good crops of nuts, under ad¬ 
verse conditions, some people seem to think that these trees do not require 
any care or attention. While this is true as regards the trees when established, 
at least if they are planted on good land, the young trees should have some at¬ 
tention till they are established. When the trees arc poorly planted on old, 
worn out land, and left to shift for themselves, failure will be the result, and 
the same is true of any other tree or trees. The principal requirements for 
success with nut trees is soil fertility. The nut tree is a natural engine of pro¬ 
duction and, with the help of sunlight and moisture, can turn the crude soil 
salts and fertility into a finished and highly concentrated food product, but we 
cannot expect the tree to produce large or regular crops unless the soil fertility 
is kept up, any more than we can expect the gas engine to run without gas or 
oil. However, it is not necessary or even advisable to delay the planting of 
the nut orchard because the land to be planted is not fertile. By using some 
good fertilizer such as bone meal or tankage, mixed with the soil around the 
roots in planting the trees, we can supply the fertility necessary for good tree 
growth at once, and very cheaply, as two or three quarts of this material is 
sufficient for average size trees, and by mulching the ground lightly around the 
trees with stable manure, grass, straw, leaves or other material, sufficient mois¬ 
ture can be maintained for good tree growth without cultivating the land. This 
annual mulch, rotting on the surface, quickly builds up the soil about the tree, 
and by growing Sweet Clover or other legumes the land can be built up to a 
high state of fertility with very little expense and while the trees are growing. 
Nut trees do not require cultivation and, being planted 40 to 50 feet apart, in 
orchard form, the young trees use only a small portion of the area for several 
years, and this gives ample time and opportunity to build up the soil in a natur¬ 
al way, and at the same time no time is lost in bringing the orchard forward. 
When these trees arc planted on good farm land, one can continue to crop the 
land for several years if desired, and the distance given the nut trees in orchard 
form makes them little in the way of cultivating farm or truck crops for several 
years. 
I mention Sweet Clover especially in connection with soil improvement,, 
because, in my experience, it is the only legume that does well on old worn out 
or gullied fields. Sweet Clover is really a wonderful plant, as it not only takes 
well on poor, worn soils, but it will grow 6 or 8 feet tall. The unhulled seed 
is the best to use. We sow this at the rate of one-half bushel to the acre, right 
on the hard ground, without any preparation whatever, with excellent results. 
