LIN SL ITER IN IS 
COOKSEY WALNUT NURSERY 
CORSICANA, TEXAS 
Write Us for Catalogue and Prices on Our Improved Walnut 
TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS:— 
jp next four to six months is a critical tume for your trees. They have been 
newly transplanted; it is hot and dry and they need attention. I would much 
prefer to sce you set two to twenty trees, give them attention and save all, 
than set five to fifty, and lose half through lack of attention. Buying the right kind 
of tree and proper setting is threc-fourths of the job, but the first year means a 
difference in success and failure—the first three years attention means the difference 
between good results and fair to poor results, thereafter the better care they get, the 
better returns you will get. WE ARE INTERESTED IN YOUR TREES; AND 
YOUR SUCCESS. CALL ON US AT ANY TIME FOR INFORMATION OR 
HELP WEWANT TOvHEEPsY OU CALPE E CAN Gi rey) WA eine vor 
WITH US, PLEASE TELL YOUR;NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS abouttussand 
our Walnut. 
SUMMER CARE AND WATERING _ 
WALNUT, FRUIT OR PECAN 
kK EEP trees cleanly cultivated during summer, mulch them with oat straw or 
leaves. I prefer cultivation and mulch to watering, but if they are in a yard 
where you cannot plow and clean regularly, then by all means keep the grass 
back four feet or more and stir ground regulariy. A leaf mulch will help also. DO 
NOT USE BERMUDA GRASS CUTTINGS, IT IS TOO HEATING. Bermuda 
grass is hard on trees. If they begin to look bad water them well every week or ten 
days during the summer. Water well once a week or ten days during the summer. 
Water well once a week late in the evening is better than every day half watering, 
or with surface water. Dig trench at edge of circle eight to twelve inches deep and 
same width, and let water soak to them through it. A little fertilizer in the trench, 
barnyard or from the chicken pen is fine, but not too much. Soak it in with the 
water, and soak water in slowly. * A well-cared for tree can fight insects and dry 
weather. A sewer pipe in the ground is good to water through, but when not in use, 
stop end with sack to keep from drying out. Put pipe back about three feet from 
tree... . DO NOT WATER TOO MUCH OR TOO OFTEN AND DROWN 
SHAPING TREES 
\ \ ViTH a good pruning knife, or pocket knife, trees can be made most any 
type when young. I like a central leader type for pecans and walnuts 
with limbs low to shade trunk and make gathering easier. For fruit an open 
top is best. A central leader type will not split so badly when they get older, and 
makes a beautiful tree. Do not prune too high the first few years—the trunk needs 
shading from the hot sun. 

