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GENERAL INFORMATION 
NUT TREES will grow under ordinary weather conditions, especially trans- 
planted trees, if they are planted and cared for rightly afterward. 
On receiving your trees plant them without delay or heel them in moist soil un- 
4i1 conditions are favorable. Under no conditions plant them in the mud, let them 
freeze or dry out. 
Dig holes for planting several inches deeper and wider than the roots of the 
tree. Put enough loose dirt in the bottom so the tree will stand from one to two 
inches lower than it stood before digging. A mark ig usually left on the tree about 
onc-third way from the roots to the graft. If planted too deep or shallow they will 
die later or grow very poorly. Keep the trees covered and moist until hole is dug then 
set one at a time. Under no condition let them be exposed to wind and sun even for 
aminute. Fill in with fine, loose, rich, top soil, tamping thoroughly with the end of 
a fork handle or other similar round end tamper. A little bone meal or tankage will 
do no harm but use no manure in planting. Now spade around your tree two or three 
feet leaving a trench around the outer rim for watering and to hold the water when it 
rains. Your tree should be so low that no water will run away from it. After the 
first heavy rain fill in with loose dry soil. Under no condition ‘heap the dirt around 
the tree and tramp it solid so every bit of water will drain away. You are not setting 
fence posts. Now you can use coarse manure or any other mulch around your tree 
for several feet but not to touch the tree. If you cultivate the land so much the 
better especially if you raise some leguminous crop such as cow peas, clover, sweet 
clover, ETC. Do not let machinery touch the trees. Stakes or other protection 
should be put up. Should you accidentally bark a tree tie the bark back immediately 
and cover with paint, graft wax or even mud. Cut your tie when the bark grows back. 
Water in Dry Season 
My trees, except walnuts, have been transplanted and so have much better root 
systems but the tops must still be cut back to balance the cut root system. Cut the 
top and all limbs so as to leave two or three buds of the last year’s growth. Any cut- 
ting is better than none. Cut the tree in half or two-thirds if you have the nerve. One 
man cut his trees less than a foot about the graft and every tree grew and he used 
the cuttings for graftwood. Use the best shoot after two years but you must protect it 
with a stake. Cover all cuts with graftwax or paint. 
Trees of different varieties should be mixed so they may cross pollenate. First 
nuts on any tree are liable to be undersize but will become normal. When your trees 
begin to bear, remember that cutivation and fertilization will grow better nuts same as 
better corn or anything else. 
After planting your trees wrap them with paper or other protection against hot 
sun, borers and rodents. Any further protection by fence will often save the trees 
from animals, dogs and cats. Borer beetles lay their eggs in the hot sun. 
Will make special prices on seedling wainuts and pecans up to grafting size. 
Write for prices and state size and number desired. 
Remember that I am more interested in the successful growth of the trees 
than in the sale of them. If you do not agree to plant them right and care for them 
do not buy them. Dead trees are no recommendation. It does not occur to many 
people that they are to blame if a tree does not grow. I have had customers who 
planted the trees any old way and next spring after the weeds have cleared away find 
them dead and want them replaced. That is why I make no guarantee whatever. 
There was only one year in the last ten that was so dry hardly a tree of any kind 
grew. That was not my fault either. 
I do not know all about nut trees and neither does any one else but if you will 
read this folder carefully it will answer most questions. Otherwise write to me and 
1 shall try to give you personal help. 
You will be surprised to know of the many ways to kill trees after planting but 
posturing or building a hog pen around them are among the most efficient. Tying 
lambs or dogs to them with chains are also sure death. 
If you will investigate you will find I am seiling trees for $1.00 for which other 
nurseries will charge four or five dollars. Some nurseries will charge you more for 
s.edling pecans and walnuts than I charge for grafted trees. Do you know the ditf- 
ference between a seedling apple and a grafted one? There is the same difference 
between pecans. I have little call or seedlings and do not recommend them except as 
stocks for grafting. I have sold grafting size limited for 25c. If you want seedlings 
write for prices. Can you imagine any one setting out an orchard of seedling apples? 
Don’t be humbugged. 
Your trees will be crooked especially at the graft. That is the sign and guar- 
antee of a grafted tree. It is caused by grafting and close growth in nursery row. 
They will grow straight. 
