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e coming, but do try some 
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ed shellbark and others called shagbark or scaly bark (Carya ovata to 
act), You picked up the nuts with delight. 
. They were preity, 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 
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. 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. 
. 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. 
ypu cL HYBRID HICKORIES. The Fairbanks hybrid is one of 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. 
é 8 PECANS hardy, beautiful. Every farm home with pecan climate should 
' have some, Good for a couple of centuries. 
‘ Q HICCAN. Fast growers. Ask us next year. Also see our special tree list. 





of Bs 10 BLACK WALNUT. These are the nuts that keep their flavor. in cooking. 
— @vV The black walnut is a majestic and useful tree. The Ohio is unusually 
_ symmetrical and beautiful. Ohio, Thomas and Stambaugh, all equally good. 
-. How about a row of them down your lane. Our 6-7 ft: Thomas are extra 
ae heavy, very fine: Will bear in a hurry. 
 Pittstown, N. J. 7/19/43. “What surprises me most of all is the fact that I | 
_ have walntts on 3 Thomas. They were 6 foot trees when planted in the spring 
_ of 1941.” The variety is precocious and productive. 
sew se 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. 
ie 12 - HONEY LOCUST. Eventually the most important thing I ever did may 
“i 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 alfalfa 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- 
_ tupeds. Varieties: Calhoun. and Millwood. No known difference between these 
=o two varieties as yet. The pods have been analyzed and found to contain 30% of 
; eit That is the reason they are devoured so greedily. They drop their pods 
: for several weeks to the enrichment of fall pastures and they begin to bear 
_ young AND THE TREES ARE THORNLESS. On Dec. 12, 1947 a Pennsylvania 
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