NUT GROWERS HANDBOOK 
By Carrouti D. BusH 
For the first time we have a book that brings to 
the grower all of the up to date essential knowledge 
of nut growing. It is short and concise and covers 
nut growing from planting the trees to marketing 
the nuts. The writer is a nurseryman, a nut grower, 
has run a commercial nut dryer and has packed and 
shipped nuts com- 
mercially, so that 
the book is written 
from practical ex- 
perience. Besides, 
the writer has been 
able to cull from the 
experience of prac- 
tical men the world 
over. 
The writer spent 
several years in the 
Orient and visited 
in Japan and China 
and in the botanical 
gardens of the Far 
Hast. He also made 
a study of cocoanut 
growing in the 
Philippine Islands 
and did botanical 
collecting for the 
Philippine govern- 
ment. He traveled 
through Europe and 
spent some time in 
the country districts 
of Italy, France and 
England. From 
these studies he 
gathered knowledge that has aided him in his work 
with American nut growing. 
He has in this country an extensive collection of 
nut trees, including perhaps the largest collection 
of chestnuts and butternuts in the country and he 
speaks from actual experience with many varieties. 
With as much experience as anyone in the world 
with Chestnut varieties, he points the way to a tree 
crop for this country that will in time become one 
of the country’s great crops. In this tree, he shows 
how we not only have a timber crop but an annual 
crop of value. 
For the first time, the Bush bark slot method of 
grafting has been described with drawings so that 
any amateur can use it for topworking trees. This 
method has been the fastest, and most successful 
method used on walnut trees. It has been used also 
on hickory, pecan, chestnut, apple, pear, cherry, 
and many other species of tree with success. It is 
the simplest, easiest to learn, and the cheapest, of 
any method yet devised for topworking any tree. 
If you wish to work over black walnuts to English, 
wild hickories to improved varieties, or merely to 
work pear or apple trees over to new paying vari- 
eties, this method is the one to use. 

Nut Growers’ Handbook explains and illustrates easiest method 
of grafting for the amateur or professional. 
In simple language this book covers the matter 
of pollination. It explains why perhaps good bear- 
ing varieties are not bearing for you. It brings 
common sense to bear on the mixing of nut varieties 
so that they will be blooming during the whole 
blooming period and set all the crops that the trees 
should set. 
The book de- 
scribes the English 
walnuts that grow- 
ers in the northern 
states can hope to 
grow. It describes 
the new thin shelled 
black walnuts that 
give hope for com- 
mercial growing in 
this country. It tells 
about hardy al- 
monds that have 
stood twenty -five 
below zero temper- 
atures in the Rocky 
Mountains. One of 
the principal chap- 
ters is devoted to 
chestnuts that will 
stand the blight 
that has killed the 
American chestnut. 
It tells how these 
chestnuts are prov- 
ing a success on 
American farms 
and offer good prof- 
its to the grower. 
It tells how growers plant their trees, cultivate, 
prune, and grow them. It tells how nuts are har- 
vested and how they are dried. 
It tells of experience of marketing with co- 
operatives and independent buyers, and of cracking 
and selling the kernels. 
The language is not technical, the print is easy 
to read, the book is well illustrated. This is written 
for the grower, and not for the scientist, yet we 
think no scientist will find fault with any statement 
in the book. There are 190 pages, printed on fine 
heavy book paper, bound in cloth. 
This book is published by the Orange Judd 
Publishing Company of New York City. It may be 
ordered from any book store or from 
CARROLL BUSH NURSERY 
Eagle Creek, Oregon 
