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have both. Please order Barcelona and pollenator. One pollenator to half a doz- 
en Barcelonas is all right. Plant six feet apart for a screen, fifteen to twenty feet 
apart in the open. eee 
HAZEL NUT. The new Winkler; native of Iowa; hardy as jack rabbit; 
7 self-pollenating; bears in 2 years; large nuts. Rare. We have only a 
few trees. 
NEW SHAGBARKS, THINNER SHELLS, BIG KERNELS, COMPLETE HALVES 
Perhaps you remember the long scales of bark on a tree that some call- 
& ed shellbark and others called shagbark or scaly bark (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 
kernels. Well, that’s over. Enthusiastic members of the Northern Nut Growers 
Association have searched the woods from Canada to Iowa and 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:. 
A sure thing for the north. Don’t miss this beautiful tree, unquestionably 
hardy and with nuts of unrivalled flavor. 
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. 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. 
9 HYBRID HICKORIES. The Fairbanks hybrid is one of the fastest grow- 
Z7 ing and surest bearers of all the hickory family. Stratford is also early 
and heavy bearer. Shagbark should pollenate both. Beginners should try these, 
and chestnuts. They bear so soon that they are most encouraging. 
10 PECANS hardy, beautiful. Every farm house with pecan climate should 
have some. Good for a couple of centuries. 
11 HICCAN. Fast growers. Ask us next year. Also see our special tree list. 
BLACK WALNUT. These are nuts that keep their flavor in cooking. 
12 The black walnut is a majestic and useful tree. The Ohio is unusually 
symmetrical and beautiful. Ohio, Thomas and Tasterite all equally good. 
How about a row of them down your lane. Our 6-7 ft. Thomas are extra 
heavy, very fine. Will bear in a hurry. Have a few Elmer Myers — new. 
’ Pittston, N. J. 7/19/43. “What surprises me most of all is the fact that I 
have walnuts on 3 Thomas. They were 6 foot trees when planted in the spring 
of 1941.” The variety is precocious and productive. 
Seedlings of the Thomas variety are unusually vigorous and often resemble 
the Thomas parent in every way. I have some that were pollenated by Ohio and 
other good varieties. These are the best seedlings in America for quality nuts. 
ENGLISH WALNUT. We have the new hardy Broadview from Russia 
1 and a small stock of two old standards, Franquette, and Wilz Mayette. 
Better parts of Zone V. Experimental in IV. 
1 4 BUTTERNUT HYBRID. Butternut x heartnut. Called Buart. Variety 
VHelmick. Very hardy, survived 34 degrees below zero at Toronto without 
injury. Tree for the north; much better bet than butternut. Pollenized by either 
Butternut or Japanese Walnut. 
1 5 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 of beans is very suggestive of a great new 
forage crop and possibly also a commercial sugar crop. There is a record from 
an Alabama experiment station of a yield of 250 pounds of pods from a nine 
year old tree. Feeding value of crop of an acre, 40 ft. apart, reported equal to 
100 bushels of oats and the same land also produced 2% tons lespedesa hay. 
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 them- 
selves in the Philadelphia climate. If you have a cow let her have a little fun. 
She likes candy as well 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 quad- 
rupeds. Varieties: Calhoun and Millwood. Millwood is the heavier bearer. The 
pods have been analyzed 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 en- 
richment of fall pastures. They begin to bear young AND THE TREES ARE 
THORNLESS. On Dec. 12, 1947, a Pennsylvania farmer fed his sheep by shaking 
the honey. locust branches with a pole. Said it saved short feet and long feed. 
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