it is not perfectly adjusted to the climate of 
the eastern United States although many 
thousand of the trees are growing between 
Virginia, Lake Ontario, and Massachusetts. 
As a result of the examination of many 
thousand trees, the Wiltz-Mayette and Treat 
Franquette have been selected as being the 
best for the eastern part of the United States. 
The quality of the nuts is quite the equal of 
any nuts that you can buy in the store. Mine 
are grafted on native Black Walnut roots, 
which is supposed to increase the hardiness. 
Do not buy any English Walnut trees unless 
you are willing to give the trees a little lime. 
A half bushel of wood ashes will do the 
trick. Without lime they will probably die; 
with it (and good food) they will grow 
rapidly. Do not cultivate or fertilize after 
June 1st. Let the grass and weeds have the 
surplus plant food. This keeps the tree from 
making late growth and gives the wood an 
extra good chance to harden ; otherwise you 
will probably have winterkilling. 
Hardy Grafted Northern Pecans 
Many people think that the Pecan is a 
southern tree, a southern tree only. This 
happened because it first became a com¬ 
mercial crop in the South, and with southern 
varieties. But it so happens that Pecans have 
grown wild in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and 
Iowa for hundreds of years. 
George Washington planted Pecans, which 
he called “Illinois nuts,” at Mt. Vernon. His 
trees are still going strong, but 1 can sell 
you much better ones than he had. Weeks 
have been spent searching the woods of the 
Wabash Valley for the best varieties. As a 
result we now have fine-flavored, thin-shelled 
Pecans from Indiana and Illinois, hardy in 
corn country and ripen where dent corn 
ripens. They have produced good crops at 
Lewisburg, Pa. You can crack them in your 
hands. Meats in complete halves. 
It is a matter of record that the North¬ 
ern varieties have better flavor than the 
Southern. 
The dent corn climate may be taken as the 
northern range for dependable ripening of 
Northern Pecan nuts, but the tree is hardy 
much farther north. I have seen a Georgia 
Pecan tree doing well in Ontario. The tree 
is quite worth planting as a shade tree, and 
in long warm seasons it may give you an 
occasional crop of nuts in locations con¬ 
siderably north of its dependable crop range. 
A gentleman from Westfield, N. Y., near 
Buffalo, writes : “I have Butterick and Bus- 
seron Pecans that came through the winter 
of 1933-34, the coldest in 60 years.” 
Beautiful, towering, gigantic trees. Ilus- 
trated booklet about “Grafted Pecans for 
the Corn Country” on request. 
Various nurseries are selling Southern 
varieties in the North at a low price. Most 
of them are good only for shade if north of 
the Cotton Belt. The trees may be hardy but 
the nuts will not ripen, because the tree re¬ 
quires the long growing season of its native 
South. 
Also many nurseries are selling seedling 
Pecan trees. They are all right for shade but 
the nuts will probably be few, small, and very 
late in coming. Some will be bitter and the 
meat will be held tight by convolutions of 
the shell. 
Persons who have been growing Northern 
Pecans the longest find it difficult to say 
that one variety is better than another. 
Advise purchase of at least one Busscron 
and one Butterick, as they are known to 
fertilize each other. The Kentucky is known 
as the best pollinator of all the many varie¬ 
ties that we have tested. It is also a pro¬ 
ducer of good nuts. The Greenriver is also 
one of the best. If well fed these Northern 
Pecans will grow H to 3 feet per year after 
getting established. Try some of each. I 
often had Busseron Pecan trees 8 to 10 feet 
high, bearing nuts in the nursery rows. 
In conclusion I want to emphasize the 
delicious flavor of these Pecans, the fact 
that the kernels come out in halves, you can 
crack them in your hands, and the tree is 
worth planting as a shade tree alone. 
Pecan x Shellbark Hybrids—Hicans 
It is a surprising fact that the different 
members of the hickory family have the 
habit of making natural hybrids. Hybrids 
show most unexpected qualities. For ex¬ 
ample, I have grafted the Shagbark (Eastern 
Shellbark) — (Carya ovata ), and had it make 
4 or 6 inches of growth in a year. Right 
alongside it one of its hybrids would make 
2 or 3 feet. 
I offer two remarkable hybrids as follows: 
Burlington comes from a huge and beau¬ 
tiful tree near Burlington, Iowa. A rapid 
grower, beautiful foliage, worth planting for 
shade alone. Large thin-shelled nuts resem¬ 
bling pecans. Has ripened nuts at Ithaca, 
New York, and is hardy at Minneapolis on 
Northern Pecan roots; that is the kind we 
sell. The flavor of these nuts is very moreish. 
Don’t miss getting one of these, and be sure 
to note its far northern range. 
McCallistcr. The original tree grew in 
