Nut Trees 
The Linn County Nurseries 
NUT TREES 
TRANSPLANTING. Nut trees are not as difficult to transplant as many 
believe but do require much more careful handling than fruit trees. The roots 
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 stem 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 facilitate watering and hold the moisture. If peat 
is not available 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 mid-summer 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. 
Being native, Black Walnuts are hardy and well adapted to Mid Western 
planting. Growth starts late in the spring and stops early in the fall so 
unseasonable cold spells are not likely to injure them. The English or Per¬ 
sian Walnut almost always grows too late in the fall and is often severely 
frozen. None has been found which has really proven dependable here, and if 
they were, do not have the fine flavor of the Black Walnut and would be 
superior only in easier cracking. No other nut except the Hickory retains 
its flavor as well as the Black Walnut after heating, and their use is in¬ 
creasing in baked goods and confectionery. Consumers who have had nuts 
of the improved varieties appreciate their superiority and insist on having 
“Those walnuts which crack out in halves and quarters”, and willingly pay 
double the price of common walnuts for them. 
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 succeeeds over a wide territory. Within the 
whole range of the Black Walnut only a few distant sections report another 
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.; 2-3 ft.; 18-24 in. 
Ohio has a large oblong hull which is difficult to remove. The nut is 
long and pointed, with a thin shell, is easy to crack and has splendid quality. 
Size, 5-6 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 
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