Nut Trees 
The Linn County Nurseries 
NUT TREES 
TRANSPLANTING. Nut trees are not difficult to transplant but require 
more careful handling than fruit trees. The root will not endure as much 
exposure and the tops should be cut back heavily. Usually the more the 
top is reduced the better the growth the first year. Cut ends should be waxed 
and the remaining top given a loose wrapping to prevent dessication. Nut 
trees are hand dug and usually have long, deep roots. Holes should be dug 
deep enough to avoid crowding them and pulverized moist peat mixed with 
top soil filled around them. A basin may be left around the tree and filled 
with peat to faciliate watering and hold the moisture. If peat is not avail¬ 
able fill in with mellow top soil and put a mulch of strawy manure about 
the tree. 
The common pests of nut trees are the Walnut Caterpillar and Fall Web- 
worm. Either may entirely defoliate walnut or other trees in late summer. 
Spraying in midsummer with arsenate of lead is an effective control. 
BLACK WALNUTS are very heavy feeders and do best in deep alluvial 
soil. They are generally quite unsatisfactory on poor upland soil. Well 
established trees may be given heavy applications of barnyard manure or 
other fertilizer judiciously applied 
No other nut except the Hickory retains its flavor as well as the Black 
Walnut after heating, and their use is increasing in baked goods and confec¬ 
tionery. Commercial crackers will buy all available nuts offered and pay 
much more for the improved kinds because their kernels have a better 
flavor and color, yield more per bushel, and a much larger percentage are 
in halves or quarters. The grafted kinds are also superior for landscape 
planting, being more thrifty and having larger, darker, glossy green foliage. 
Thomas is the best known and succeeds over a wide territory. Within 
the whole range of the Black Walnut only a few distant sections report an¬ 
other kind preferable to Thomas, and commercial plantings are mostly of it. 
The tree is hardy, very vigorous, productive, and a very young bearer, 
switches one year old often bearing the following season. The nuts are large, 
easily hulled and fairly thin-shelled. The kernels have fine flavor and color, 
easily crack out in halves and quarters, and the yield is ten pounds or more 
per bushel. Sizes, 5-6 ft.; 4-5 ft.; 3-4 ft.; 2-3 ft.; 18-24 in. 
Ohio is more difficult to hull than Thomas but has a thin shell and is an 
excellent cracker, with splendid quality. The nut is long and pointed. In 
a very few places it is considered superior to Thomas. Sizes, 5-6 ft.; 4-5 ft. 
Stambaugh won first prize in the 1926 contest of the Northern Nut Growers 
Association with more than 1200 competitors. Reports of its performance so 
far have been remarkably, uniformly good. We believe it will prove to be 
a better tree and equally good nut and will become a strong rival of Thomas 
for first place. Sizes, 5-6 ft.; 4-5 ft.; 3-4 ft.; 2-3 ft.; 18-24 in. 
Cresco is a medium sized nut of good quality which is expected to prove 
hardier than most varieties since it cornes from near the Minnesota line. The 
trees are very thrifty and bear early. Sizes, 5-6 ft.; 4-5 ft.; 3-4 ft. 
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