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Kernels. Well, that’s over. Enthusiastic members of the Northern Nut Growers 
Association have searched the woods from Canada to Carolina these last 30 years’ 
and found the master trees. I am testing about 50 varieties. The shagbarks we 
sell will give you most of their kernels in halves. These are genius trees. 
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 ten varieties 
but only a few trees of each: suggest let us select unless you are a specialist. 
A sure thing for the north. Don’t miss this beautiful tree, unquestionably 
hardy and with nuts of unrivalled flavor. The parent trees are scattered all the 
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 to 40 feet apart. 
8 PECANS hardy, beautiful. Every farm home should have some. Almost | 
sold out for the spring. 
9 HICAN. Fast growers, three varieties, Gerardi, Bixby and Des Moines. 
_ ~~ Almost sold out for this spring. 
10 BLACK WALNUT. These are the nuts that keep their flavor in cooking. 
The black walnut is a majestic and useful tree. | 
- Seedlings of the Thomas variety are unusually vigorous. I have some that 
were pollenated by Ohio and other good varieties. These are the best seedlings. 
in America. 3-4 ft. trees one dollar each. 
1] ENGLISH WALNUT. We have a small stock of two old standards, Fran- 
quette, and Wilz Mayette, and the new Broadview from Poland, the 
hardiest good English walnut we have. 
12 TURKISH TREE HAZEL (Corylus colurna). This is a remarkably beauti- 
ful tree. It develops sharp conical shape with unusually perfect sym- 
metry. The bark is of corky texture. Early to leaf out in spring and carries its 
leaf late in the autumn. Nuts are in a large burr, sometimes as many as 10 to 
the burr. It is a rapid grower, 80 ft. in height. Hardy in Iowa and New England. 
13 AMERICAN PERSIMMONS. These are delicious fruits but our stock un- 
fortunately is low. 
OUR TREES ARE FOR THE NORTH 
The rubber industry of the Far East is derived from the seed of Brazilian 
rubber trees grown in the greenhouses of Kew Gardens, London. The Kew trees 
were raised from seed carried from Brazil by an Englishman. 
Similarly we grow northern trees in the northernmost corner of Virginia on 
the slope of the Blue Ridge Mountain. not far from Harpers Ferry and expect 
them to live in Massachusetts and Michigan. Here is the way we do it. 
We use walnut seed from Minnesota. On seedlings of this tough origin we 
graft the Tasterite walnut which grows on the cold plateau near Ithaca, New 
York. This is our farthest North Walnut. 
The cions of shagbark trees from Minnesota, from Michigan, and from 
Ontario, are grafted on young seedling trees grown from Quebec nuts. Per- 
simmon seed from Northern Missouri and Kansas are grafted with cions of per- 
simmons that have done well in Iowa. Our Chinese persimmon varieties were im- 
ported personally from the extreme northern range of Chinese persimmons. 
I have seen snow two feet deep at Sunny Ridge Nursery, and I have ex- 
perienced temperatures of 30° below zero in that neighborhood. 
The climates of Peking, China, and Omaha, Nebraska, are almost identical as 
to average temperatures for July and average temperatures for January. 
Our Chinese persimmons and our chestnuts came from the vicinity of 
Peking, some of the persimmons from further west. . 
This should not, however, be taken as a statement that our persimmons 
will thrive in Omaha, Nebraska. I do not know.’ There may be quirks in the cli- 
mate, such as spring thaws or warm November days followed by freezes that 
- make a difference. It should be clearly understood that the Chinese persimmons, 
