GRAFTED NUT TREES 
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Our Motto -“Beauty Plus Utility’’ 
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Nut trees are as easy to grow as most other ornamental shade 
trees. Nut trees make as good shade trees as most now commonly 
grown, such as maples, elms, etc., and some of them make real 
ornamentals, as for instance, Asiatic heartnut, hickories, hickory 
hybrids, etc. 
Nut trees are dual purpose trees: they are food producers as 
well as ornamental shade trees. They lend themselves to this dual 
role considerably better than do fruit trees; while in some cases 
various varieties of fruit trees make real ornamentals, their use as 
such is quite limited, while one can find nut trees to meet nearly all 
needs for ornamental shade trees. 
We still do not advocate the commercial planting of nut trees 
in the North East, but there is no doubt as to their value when 
planted about the homestead. They cost little if any more than other 
ornamentals, while in future they will produce food crops of con- 
siderable value. 
Many of the nut trees produce very valuable lumber in case 
they have to be removed in the future. 
The nut tree nurseries are performing a very necessary part in 
the development of nut tree growing. Comparatively few who are 
interested in nut trees have the knowledge or the materials to 
propagate their own superior nut tree varieties. These selected 
superior nut tree varieties are so much better than the average 
seedling varieties, that for one to grow seedling trees about his 
homestead would be comparable to setting wild apple trees instead 
of well known named varieties such as McIntosh, Delicious, etc. 
