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Ne They were pretty, the flavor delicious, and you had difficulty in getting the 
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 
‘i a 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 
fat 4 shagbarks grow. I’ve seen them make 3 feet in a season. There is little danger of 
hurt by over feeding. We have several varieties but only a few trees of each: sug- 
gest let us select for you 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. 
7 HYBRID HICKORIES. The’ Fairbanks hybrid is oneyof the fastest grow- 
ing and surest bearers of all the hickory family. Stratford is also early 
and heavy bearer; Shagbark should pollenate both. Beginners should try these. 
They bear so soon that they are most encouraging. 
8 PECANS hardy, beautiful. Every farm home with pecan climate should 
have some. Good for a couple of centuries. 
g HICCAN. Fast erowers. ASK us next year. 
10 BLACK WALNUT. These are the nuts that keep their flavor in cooking. 
The black walnut is a majestic and useful tree. The Ohio is unusually 
symmetrical and beautiful. Ohio, Thomas and Stambaugh,’ all equally good. 
Tasterite for north Zone II, III. Parent tree Ithaca, N. Y. 
- How about a row of them down your lane. Our 7-8 ft. Thomas are extra 
heavy, very fine. Will bear in a hurry. 
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 for quality nuts. 
. 11 ENGLISH WALNUT. We have a small stock of two old standards, Fran- 
quette, and Wilz Mayette. Better parts of Zone V. Experimental in IV. 
12 HONEY LOCUST. Eventually the most important thing I ever did may 
be the introduction of the honey locust as a forage crop. The way these 
trees cluster themselves with long pods ef beans is very suggestive of a great new 
forage crop and possibly also a commercial sugar crop. (see book Tree Crops by J. 
Russell Smith, out of print, try good library). The small beans are embedded in 
big fat sugary pods that hang in masses and ripen on test trees of both varieties 
that we offer. They have proved themselves in the Philadelphia climate. If you 
have a cow let her have a little fun. She likes candy as Sort as any girl. If you 
keep livestock in the pasture where these trees grow you will have to get up early 
in the morning if you expect to find any beans on the ground. They will have 
been eaten at dawn by the quadrupeds. Varieties: Calhoun and Millwood. No 
known difference between these two varieties as yet. The pods have been an- 
alyzed and found to contain 30% of sugar. That is the reason they are devoured 
so greedily. They drop their pods for several weeks to the enrichment of fall 
Peace nite they begin to bear young AND THE TREES ARE THORNLESS. Zone 
and south. 
We have some 8-10 foot and 10-12 foot trees that can be planted in pastures 
above the reach of cows and therefore without special protection. 
Plant 35 to 50 feet apart in pastures. You will get just as much grass or 
- more and a ton or two of grain equivalent per acre. The open top of their feath- 
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ery foliage lets light through to the grass. Tennessee experiment station reports 
that such light shading INCREASED GRASS YIELD. 
The tree has sprawling habits and the trees you buy may be crooked, but 
I have seen them straighten and the promise of harvests is excellent. 
vA | 3 SUPERTRANS APPLE. I have an apple that no other nursery known to 
us offers. It is of Russian origin, much like the yellow transparent in 
