NUT TREE SPECIALISTS 
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GENERAL REQUIREMENTS OF NUT TREES 
Nut trees should be ranked in a class with other food producing trees. 
This will give the prospective planter a better picture of the needs of the 
tree. For home planting one need not be as exacting about each factor which is 
good or bad for a tree because generally for the home the nut tree is filling 
a place as a shade tree on the lawn and every nut picked from the tree is 
just so much more food value than the ordinary shade tree will produce. 
For this reason a late killing frost due to lack of sufficient air drainage will 
not be a serious draw-back because generally severe frosts do not occur late 
enough to injure the nut tree group—they vegetate late. For the farm 
owner who is making every piece of land pay a dividend the nut trees are 
exceptionally fine. They can be used along fertile fence rows, lanes, in the 
pastures, on the lawn and on hilly ground where the soil is rich enough 
to grow the trees as well as in the wood-lot. The nut trees have few pests 
compared to the fruit tree group. Most of the species we are growing are 
primarily forest trees. The prospective orchard man will want to pay par¬ 
ticular attention to good air drainage, good soil drainage, rich soil, prefer¬ 
ably with a good clay subsoil to hold fertility. No hard pan sub soil or trees 
planted on ridges of rock. They grow for a time, but as the roots cannot 
penetrate down will die in a few years. Usually land which will support 
other large growing trees is ideal for nut tree planting. Most of the nut trees 
listed in our price list will do well on either acid or alkaline soil except the 
English walnuts. These require a decidedly alkaline soil. 
THE BLACK WALNUT, Juglans nigra 
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 
doing well there. 
The black walnut is one of our principal forest trees in the U. S. and 
will thrive with little or no attention as do other trees of the same type. 
When planting the trees for nut production they should be given plenty of 
room and they naturally respond the best to proper care and attention. 
We heartily recommend planting this tree. The varieties we are growing are 
thin shelled, easily cracked and are of excellent flavor. 
OHIO. This variety is from Northern 
Ohio. The tree makes the most symmetrical 
and upright tree of the lot. The nut is 
medium to large, shell thin, kernel full, 
light of color and of the best quality. The 
earliest bearing tree in our nursery. 
