Snyder Bros. (Inc.), Center Point, Iowa 
Nut Trees 
Cresco is a medium sized nut of good quality which is expected to prove 
hardier than most varieties since it comes from near the Minnesota line. The 
trees are very thrifty and bear early. 4-5 ft.; 3-4 ft.; 2-3 ft. 
A few trees are available of Mintle, Rohwer, Stabler, Sparrow, Tasterite, 
Vandersloot, and Wandra at the prices below. Sizes available on application. 
PRICES—of Grafted Walnuts. 5-6 ft. 4-5 ft. 3-4 ft. 2-3 ft. 18-24 in. 
See sizes after each variety .$2.00 $1.75 $1.50 $1.25 $1.00 
HICKORIES, HICCANS, and PECANS. 
The Shagbark Hickory has an exceptionally rich flavor that is carried 
through the process of baking better than that of any other nut. Their use 
is limited because of the difficulty of separating the kernels from the hulls 
in the ordinary wild nuts. This is overcome in propagated varieties like Strat¬ 
ford for example, the entire kernel of which often cracks out in one piece. 
Hickory trees are slow to become established after transplanting and it is 
very important that the top be heavily reduced and good care given them. Once 
well established they are very persistent as early settlers found when they 
attempted to kill out a grove of hickories. 
The Hickories do better on the hills and hillsides and the Pecans and 
Hiccans, which are usually grafted on Pecan roots, on the rich bottom lands. 
Pecans grow considerably faster than Hickories. They bloom two weeks 
later and require a longer season to ripen so the nuts very seldom mature be¬ 
fore being frozen here, and as nut producers they have little value. The trees 
cf the most northern kinds are hardy and well worth planting for ornamental 
trees, or for stocks upon which to graft the Hickories and Hybrid Hickories. 
Only ungrafted trees grown from the most northern Iowa seed procurable are 
quoted. 
Hiccans are crosses of the hickories and pecans and usually ripen in central 
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. 
It takes so long to grow a hickory stock to grafting size and the grafting 
is so susceptible to failure due to uncontrollable weather conditions that grafted 
hickories will always be costly compared to other grafted trees. 
Creager comes from Northern Iowa and is probably a hybrid of the Bitter- 
nut. The tree has dark glossy green leaves, is very rapid growing and one 
of the most beautiful of the hickories. The nuts, which are produced very 
freely, are small, but of splendid quality, crack out nicely and keep sweet a 
long time. 
Fairbanks is a large thin shelled Bitternut hybrid, which someone has said 
has everything desirable in a hickory variety except quality. When first tasted 
one notices a bitterness which disappears if more are eaten or in baking. Most 
people who have it fruiting are pleased with it and being such a young, heavy, 
and regular bearer, it is well worth planting. 
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