SHAGBARK HICKORIES 
The shagbark nut is good. It is one of the best in the world. The tree is 
beautiful but 1 find it is the very dickens to propagate. 
I have only a small stock of these trees, a few each of a number of 
varieties from various latitudes. You state the size you want to pay for and 
let us do the best we can on fitting the variety to your locality. We have 
a geographer on the staff. 
GET OUR RARE TREE LIST 
As company for my old age I am building up a collection of varieties 
of Shagbarks arid hickory hybrids on my Blue Ridge mountainside. I now 
have about 70 varieties. They are interesting company. My human friends 
get busy, they get old and bald, they go to the great beyond. The trees keep 
green and grow greater and greater as the years roll by—very interesting 
company. 
During the last 25 years the Northern Nut Growers Association has 
been advertising and offering prizes for the best Hickory nuts. Nearly a 
hundred varieties have been thought good enough to name and give a trial. 
Mr. Willard Bixby, of Baldwin, N. Y., had most of these as some of his 
several hundred varieties of nut trees. After his lamented death this price¬ 
less arboretum was dispersed. I got cions of most of the Hickories for my 
old-age collection and to test out for the benefit of the public. I CAN SPARE 
A TREE OR TWO OP A FEW VARIETIES. 
This is an opportunity for experimenters that is not likely to happen 
again soon. Write for our Rare Tree List. 
READING GUIDES FOR THE OWNER OF NUT TREES 
1. THE PLANTING, FERTILIZATION, & CARE OF NUT TREES 
by J. Russell Smith, ScD, postpaid 2 5^. 
Don’t buy good trees and then kill them by misguided care. This book¬ 
let will save you many times its cost and increase the results for all but 
the most skillful. 
2. TREE CROPS, A PERMANENT AGRICULTURE, 
by J. Russell Smith, ScD. 
This book is 300 pages of pleasure to the person who loves trees or 
loves the earth or who likes to hear about things he never thought of 
before. 
If you have a streak of ingenuity you will like this book. It tells how 
we are on the road to a whole new series of crops that grow on trees in¬ 
stead of on straw. Don’t you want to have a hand in this new thing? The 
tree is nature’s real engine of production and this book tells about some 
of them—Pecans, Persimmons, Hickories, Hybrids, Black Walnuts, English 
Walnuts, Honey Locust (cowfeed), Acorn bread and other things that are 
just over the hill waiting to come into your yard. 
If you have a constructive imagination this book is likely to cause you 
to start something. 
Price $1.60 postpaid to any part of the United States. If you see it and 
don’t want it send it back in good order after 5 days and you will get 
your money back promptly. I have found this to be a very safe offer. They 
don’t come back. People keep them to read them a second time. 
3. HOW TO GRAFT NUT TREES. 
Postpaid 25^. 
The real fun is to graft your own nut trees. It is not especially difficult 
but it does require special technique. This illustrated booklet tells just how 
to do it. 
This booklet is Appendix F of the book Tree Crops. So you don’t need 
both unless you want the booklet to carry around with you. 
Address And Make Checks Payable To 
SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY, SWARTHMORE, PA. 
