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honey locusts Mastered ianieives with long pods of beans is very suggestive of 
a great new forage crop and possibly also a commercial sugar crop. (see book 
Tree Crops). Great big, fat sugary pods hung in masses and ripened on.test trees 
= O08 the two honey locusts that I am offering. They have proved themselves in the 
_ Philadelphia climate. If you have a cow let her have a little fun. She likes candy 
~~ as well as any girl. If you Keep livestock in the pasture where these trees’ grow 
es - you will have to get up early in the morning if you expect to find any beans on 
aes the ground. They will have been eaten at dawn by: the quadrupeds. Varieties: 
: Be Calhoun and Millwood. No known difference between these two varieties as yet. 
= Gare = ‘ FILBERTS—For a long while I turned up my nose at filberts but I had 
ett: _ a few trees. At last the handsome way they grow won my attention. 
Picking up the nuts: won my affection. Eating them confirmed it, and now I’m 
- an enthusiast starting a test orchard and selling the proved standard varieties. 
aa. some. They are intimate yard trees and very good screens. 
‘Barcelona is the heavy bearer and Du Chilly and several others are pollena- 
tors: You must have both. Please order Barcelona and pollenator. One pollenator 
St. half a dozen Barcelonas is all right. Two are better, Six feet ope for:a 
S anes _Séreen, fifteen to twenty feet apart in the open. 
ay fe HAZEL NUT. This is a hardy plant. Very satisfactory to grow and an- 
oe - early bearer. Winkler variety. is native to Iowa—very hardy. Filberts will 
= See it, so will wild Hazel pollenator. Hazel will not pollenate filbert. 
poe 8 PECANS. The Recan has pistillate blossoms at one time and staminate 
arse 7 blossoms at- another, and they are not exactly methodical as to when 
ae _ they perform. 
The Kentucky variety has pollen for the longest period. Therefore you should 
Pave: one. The beginner should also have Busseron and Indiana. They are the 
most. precocious and early ripening. The Greenriver has larger nuts but it needs 
ce ‘week or. ten days more time. The Major will outbear them all but the nut is 
> not quite so large as the others. Its time of ripening is in between the others. 
eee: oe _SHAGBARKS. We have nine varieties of this interesting species. The 
oe “parent trees are scattered all the way from the Great Smoky Moun- 
tains ‘to Ontario and Wisconsin. Unless you are an experimenter or one who 
_ knows a lot about hickories the way to order is to give us your latitude and 
ne and let us select the varieties. One of the dangers in moving trees is to 
ie them too far north or south ot the home of the parent tree. ‘Trees have a 
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Ss ~ BLACK WALNUT. ea oas. heavy vielder: Stabler, the beautiful lawn 
tree; Tasterite, native of Ithaca, N. Y. The tree for the north. 
41 #4£,°4ENGLISH WALNUT. Wiltz Mayette, the old standard; Treat Frauquette, 
44 arunner up; Broadview (sold out) supposed to be extra hardy. 
9 YEW TREES. We have some Japanese Yew. Erect. ones, excellent for 
reas hedge. If interested, write for prices. 
8 DWARF ENGLISH BOX. We have a few nice healthy wiabulad plants, 
3 oe inches to 2 feet across. Write for prices. 
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coat As company for my old age I am building up a collection of varieties of 
| Ue and. hickory. hybrids on my Blue Ridge mountainside. I now have 
about - 10 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 
fgets greater and greater as the years roll by—very interesting company. 
> - LARGE SIZED CHESTNUTS, WALNUTS, PECANS, SHAGBARKS 
Lee The special tree list gives trees by number and they are all sold with ball 
ae earth. This list contains trees not obtainable pie when, Many of the trees are 
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