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perictics that we offer. They have proved chemeance in the Philadelphia 
ate. If you have a cow let her have a little fun. She likes candy as well as 
pgiri. If you keep livestock in the pasture where these trees grow you will 
we to get up early in the morning if you expect to find any beans on the 
ound. They will have been eaten at dawn by the quadrupeds. Varieties: Cal- 
un and Millwood. No known difference between these two varieties as yet. The 
ods have been analyzed and found to contain 30% of sugar. That is the reason 
hey are devoured so greedily. 
These trees are precocious. Some produce beans when 10 feet in height. We 
ve some 8-10 foot trees that can be planted in pastures above the reach of 
ws and therefore without special protection. Write for special prices for a field 
Jlanting. Experiments show that pastures with gentle shade produce best. This 
result was obtained by the Tennessee station. 
Plant 35 to 50 feet apart in pastures. You will get just as much grass or 
more and lots of corn substitute besides. The open top of their feathery foliage 
ets light through to the grass. 
6 FILBERTS—For a long while I turned up my nose at filberts but I had 
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 
n enthusiast starting a test orchard and selling the proved standard varieties. 
ry some. They are intimate yard trees and very good screens. 
_ * Barcelona is the heavy bearer and ‘Du Chilly and several others are pollena- 
ae ors. You must have both. Please order Barcelona and eae oe One pollenator 
x 
y, “7 HAZEL NUT. Sold out. 
NEW SHAGBARKS. THINNER SHELLS, BIG KERNELS 
q S- Perhaps you remember the long scales of bark on a tree that some call- 
pr. ed shellbark and others called shagbark (Carya ovata to be exact). You 
‘Picked up the nuts with delight. 
__ They were pretty, the flavor delicious, and you had difficulty in getting the 
Association have searched the woods from Canada to Carolina and found the 
master trees. The shagbarks we sell will give you most of their kernels in halves. 
ye Bese are genius trees. 
a If you fertilize the trees you will be surprised at the speed with which the 
- shagbarks grow. I’ve seen them make 3 feet in a season. We have the following 
ae varieties, all good.vBridgewater, ‘Fox, Griffin, ‘Hagen, /Heibner. ‘Kirtland, /Mann, 
oy ‘Miller, Neilson ,*“Romig, Weiker, /Weschk Ke. 
ae My AC Sure thing for the north. Don’t miss this beautiful tree, unquestionably 
hae hardy and with nuts of unrivalled flavor. The parent trees are scattered all the 
© ae way from the Great Smoky Mountains to Ontario and Wisconsin. Unless you 
know a lot about hickories the way to order is to give us your latitude and alti- 
tude and let us select the varieties. One of the dangers in moving trees is to get 
_ them too far north or south of the home of the parent tree. 30 feet apart. 
ey 9 PECANS. Tell us your latitude and altitude and let us select from our 
ie half dozen varieties. 40 - 80 feet apart. 
Oya 10 BLACK WALNUT. Sold out. 
Mid a 1] ENGLISH WALNUT. We have a few bres of the new very hardy and 
| &4 * rare Broadview, 40 - 50 feet. 
ie 12 TURKISH TREE HAZEL (Corylus colurna) This is a remarkably .beauti- 
. ful tree. It develops sharp conical shape with unusually perfect sym- 
+e eg The bark is of corky texture. Early to leaf out in spring and carries its 
ioe late in the autumn. Nuts are in a large burr, sometimes as many as 10 to 

4 3 HEARTNUT finelnas siebol! iana). This Asiatic walnut is a rapid grow- 
ing tree with leaves somewhat larger than the American black walnut. 
‘The bark and wood resemble the English walnut. The heart-shaped nuts yield 
their meats easily and are borne in clusters. The trees are rapid growers, reach- 
ene 30 to 40 ft. in height, shaped not unlike an apple tree. 
| 4 CHINQUAPIN. This bush form of blight resistant native chestnut is 
living on in spite of the blight. The nuts are small but are the sweetest 
ot iad chestnuts. Very productive, An interesting hedge. 
