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| BENTON & SMITH NUT TREE NURSERY MPa ad Miaiatinas 
DESCRIPTION AND PRICE LIST 1946-47, « Wassae, hY¥t————- 
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Qur policy id te carry as standard varieties only those we have 
grown here and which have fruited,proving that they are adapted to 
this locality and latitude,or those varieties which have their origin 
in such locations as to make us very sure that they will mature their 
fruit here and that the trees will prove hardy here. We also honor the 
findings of the variety tests at Cornell University, as they are situat- 
ed somewhat farther nerth than we are, 
We also plan to keep abreast of the development of northern nut 
growing, from time to time adding to our list such of the very best 
varieties as prove adaptable to this latitude (41° 45tN,. Late joewe will 
occasionally have extra trees of varieties which we will acvccate ony 
for more southern locations,until they have proven themseivee here, 
or for those who are collecting various varieties for testinge 
We. will f111 orders in the order in which we recieve them and 
as our stock of many varieties is very limited we advise ordering 
early and thus you may avoid disappointment, We will hold trees until 
such time as you desire delivery. 
In case we do: not have the size of tree you order, we Will. ship 
the next smaller size, but will charge. you: only for, the, 3126 snipred 
or will refund the difference if tree is already Dee, Tole ed We OO 
not have a smaller tree but do have a larger one, We We. Gok vies 
charging only for the size orderede 
We have some very good trees this season, but far less of them 
than we expected,due to an unfortunate circumstance, Last Spring we 
stored our grafting wood in a cooler over which we had no conovel, 
in April the manager of the cooler changed the setting of the tempers 
ature control so that the temperature ran above 50°F, We (did'nad "tind 
this out until the buds had started considerably, especially some of 
the early budding warieties,. such as the Littlepage. We used the wood 
with varying degrees of success, none were up to par and the variety 
we wanted above all others,the Littlepage, was the poorest of all, 
We must ask those who have Littlepage trees ordered to bear with us 
a little longer. We have arranged to have our own cooler frem now one 
HEARTNUTS 
The heartnut,at least the varieties we have under test,have 
proven hardy here under the coldest weather conditions we hive had 
~34°F.on Feb. 16th,1943. No aamage and the trees bore nuts the nore 
Sumer, Any of the walnut and hickory species will suffer Irom frost 
injury to the young folliage from late frosts in the Spring. ‘the only 
guards against this are, avoiding frost pockets to set nus trees tn, 
and to nies varicties that bud out late for locations where such Late 
frosts pare frequent. 
FODERMALER- The nit of this variety is of good size,cracks easily, 
the kernels comming out mostly in whole halves, In flavor it is one 
of the very best. Ripens here in late September. 
Tae tree grows rapidly and bears annually, We have some very 
fine trees of this varicty in one year old grafts onlye: 
