Nut Trees 
The Linn County Nurseries 
Hiccans are crosses of the hickories and pecans and usually ripen in Cen¬ 
tral Iowa. The nuts are larger than the Northern pecans, do not have a bitter 
inner shell, and partake of the hickory flavor, so are better than pecans. They 
grow rapidly, and make a very beautiful tree, but are slow starting to bear. 
The supply of grafted hickories is always limited and particularly so after 
a series of extremely dry, hot years which made propigation difficult. It takes 
so long to get hickory stocks large enough to graft that there is no prospect of 
grafted trees becoming cheap. 
A very few other kinds are available besides those listed below. 
Craeger comes from Northern Iowa and is one of the most rapid growing 
and beautiful trees among the hickories. The nuts are small, but of splendid 
quality, crack out nicely, are produced very freely, and keep sweet a long tima 
Fairbanks, Bestall, and Beaver are rapid growing, young bearing, productive 
hybrids of the bitternut and shagbark. The nuts are large, thin-shelled and 
quite good quality. When first tasted, one notices a slight bitterness, which dis¬ 
appears in baking or as more are eaten raw. Fairbanks has given such good 
satisfaction that we consider it one of the most dependable kinds. Apparently 
it bears well when considerable removed from other kinds. 
Vest and Hand are similar shagbarks with very thin, ridged shells and meats 
of splendid quality. Hand bears quite young and in this way we believe is the 
better of the two. 
Stratford is the earliest bearing shagbark we have, and it is a heavy pro¬ 
ducer. The smooth, white, thin-shelled nuts crack very easily, the kernels often 
come out whole, and have splendid quality. It is one of the earliest to ripen, in 
early years ripening here in late August. This variety grows well on bitternut 
stocks, and has given some wonderful results top-worked on them. 
Hagen is our most rapid growing pure shagbark, and coming from Northern 
Iowa, we believe it one of the hardiest kinds. The nuts are large and crack out 
over 40% meats, mostly in halves, and are unexcelled in richness and flavor. 
Des Moines and Burlington (also called Marquardt) Hiccans are grafted on 
Hardy Pecan roots and the supply is quite limited this year. 
PRICES—One-year grafts, unbranched. 4-5 ft. 3-4 ft. 2-3 ft. 
Beaver ....'.$. $2.25 $2.00 
Bestall . 2.25 2.00 
Burlington .. 3.00 .. . 
Creager . 2.50 2.25 ....... 
Des Moines . 3.00 2.50 . 
Fairbanks . 2.50 2.25 2.00 
Hagen . 3.00 2.50 2.00 
Hand . 2.50 2.00 
Stratford . 3.00 2.50 2.00 
Vest . 2.50 2.00 
THE WINKLER HAZEL makes a splendid ornamental shrub 6 to 7 ft. high 
and produces the largest nuts of the native hazels. They have the splendid 
flavor of the wild hazelnut and in good seasons may be over an inch across. 
The bushes bear when two or three feet high and a single large bush has pro¬ 
duced over six pounds of nuts. They are either self-pollenizing or pollenized 
by the wild floating pollen, anyhow pollenation is not the problem it is with 
the filbert varieties. In severe climates the staminate catkins are sometimes 
reported winter killed. This seldom occurs here and crop failures seem due to 
severe freezing at blooming time. Farther south Winkler is reported as bearing 
every year and far more satisfactory than the filberts. In the fall the foliage 
is especially attractive with scarlet and bronze tints. 
Two-year transplants, 2-3 ft.60c each $5.00 per 10 
Two-year transplants, 18-24 in.50c each 4.00 per 10 
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