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J. F. JONES NURSERIES, LANCASTER, PA. 
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS OF NUT TREES 
Nut trees should be ranked in a 
class with other food producing 
trees. This will give the prospec¬ 
tive planter a better picture of the 
needs of the tree. For home plant¬ 
ing 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 
Plight Resistant Chestnuts 
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 suffi¬ 
cient air drainage will not be a ser¬ 
ious 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 r 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 pri¬ 
marily forest trees. The prospec¬ 
tive orchard man will w'ant to pay 
particular attention to good air 
drainage, good soil drainage, rich 
soil, preferably 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 pene¬ 
trate 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 chestnuts require a neutral to acid soil. 
The Chinese Chestnut holds its dried and 
brown leaves during the winter. 
