sota, and it is very important that we get 
good, productive strains from the north- 
ern range. 
The beans should be imbedded in a 
sugary pulp, and the pods should be a foot 
long at least. If they do not taste good 
to you, don’t send them. Some are bitter. 
The high sugar content suggests a hill- 
grown sugar crop in the not distant fu- 
ture if we use our heads. 
When to Plant Our Trees 
If you plant in the spring plant as 
early as you can. Don’t put it off. Give 
the tree a chance to get settled into the 
earth and start its roots to drawing nutri- 
ment therefrom. From New York and 
Pittsburgh southward you can plant in 
November. 
Planting the Tree 
Don’t buy a good tree and then neglect 
it. I want my trees to be well treated. 
Nut trees have great root systems. It 
is certainly true that young Hickories 
and Pecans have more root than top. If 
you had all the roots of such a tree you 
would need a hole almost as deep as a well 
and as wide as a small house foundation in 
which to plant it. Transplanting such 
trees 1s an act of violence at best. The 
tops should be reduced to match the reduc- 
cion of roots. Therefore, I trim all trees 
sewerely unless buyer especially requests 
otherwise. I also wax the trunks with a 
thi wax emulsion. This gives transplant- 
ing a higher percentage of success be- 
cause the wax keeps the trunk from send- 
ing out so much of the limited supply of 
moisture. 
One of my fellow experimenters planted 
700 nut trees in the spring of 1937 and 
lost 1%, but he wrapped the roots of 
every tree with wet burlap while carrying 
it from the bale to the hole. The nut trees 
do not make fibrous roots of size that can 
be moved except with ball of earth. It is 
very important that the roots do not get 
at all dry in planting. 
In planting the tree be sure that there 
is room for roots to spread out as far as 
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possible and that earth is carefully 
worked in so that it touches every part of 
every root. After this is done pour in 
water until it stands in the hole. Then 
joggle the roots a little to establish per- 
fect mud contact. If you have to carry this 
water, carry it. It’s cheap insurance for 
such a tree. 
In filling up the hole leave a basin that 
will hold two buckets of water, and if the 
ground slopes make little drains so that 
shower runoff will run into the basin. 
It is an excellent plan to immerse the 
root end of your unopened bundle of trees 
in water for the night before you plant 
them out. The drink they get helps them 
through the next days. 
Care Immediately after Planting 
We beg that the trees be protected by 
clean cultivation or by 3 or 4 foot radius 
of straw, old hay or paper mulch for 
the first two years, and watered if 
drought comes. It is really scandalous the 
way some people will pay good money 
for trees and then kill the trees by neglect. 
I want your trees to grow. You should 
by all means buy our little booklet on 
planting care and fertilization of nut 
trees; see our price list. 
All this may sound a bit fussy, but re- 
member you are winding up something 
that will run for centuries. George Wash- 
ington’s Pecans are still growing and the 
English Walnut trees in a _ certain 
forester’s yard, in Poland, are said to 
be 300 years old and yielding 1200 pounds 
of nuts per tree at a full crop. 
We do our best, but like other nursery- 
men we give no guarantees. In this booklet 
we have done our level best to state the 
up-to-date facts, but we would remind our 
readers that there is much that we yet 
need to know about the locations for par- 
ticular kinds of trees. 
References 
Round Hill National Bank, Round Hill, 
Va.; Swarthmore National Bank, Swarth- 
more, Pa. 
