The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-10-14


few years of their growth, After that
they seem to do we'll in our cold climate.
In the South and on the Pacific coast
they are not affected unfavorably by
the climate, and the trees yield album
dant crops.
Next to the chestnuts, the pecans are
probably the greatest of American nuts
that are raised and used quite univer-
sally in most States in the Union. Pri-
ma1ily found growing chiefly in the
States south of New York, their line of
culture has been gradually extended to
all parts of the North. They produce
larger crops, however, in the South. In
Illinois native pecan tree is found
which is said to be as hardy as the APP
pie and fully as prolific of nuts as the
Southern trees. Even in Michigan
pecan trees are now found. In their
wild state the trees are slow of growth.
and come into bearing only after
lapse of ten, fifteen and twenty years.
But those cultivated in orchards pro-
duce a bushel of nuts in ten years from
the planting of the seed, and the crop
increases gradually every year there
after. So important has pecan culture
become in parts of the South and West
that nurserymen make a speciality of
raising the trees from seeds, and be-
ginner can save time by purchasing two
and three year old trees for the orchard.
There are many varieties of the
pecan, and some are much harder than
others; but the few choice thin-shelled
varieties have been improved through
systematic cultivation, and they are all
ways found to be the most profitable
for planting. Horticulturalists say that
the trees will grow wherever the hick-
cries or oaks flourish, and that they
will last from 60 to 100 years, always
improving in productiveness. In Texas
growers frequently average $40 to SIS a
tree fifteen years from seed planting.
SO popular has the industry become
that few years ago the owners of or
Guards Oh t..e gulf coast dug up orange
trees to make room for pecan trees.
The shellbark hickory is far more
profitable to grow in many regions of
the country than the peach. 1t comes
into bearing in about ten years from
the seed. The timber of an orchard of
hickory trees is of itself valuable in
vestment in time. Timber men also
figure out that it is profitable invest
ment to plant walnut trees on land that
can be purchased for $25 or less an acre.
This is for the timber alone, and the
owner has all the additional profit that
comes from selling the nuts. Good wal
nuts sell readily in our markets, and
they are easier to dispose of, as rule
than apples. Trees planted for timber
however will never produce as large a
crop OF nuts as an orchard planted il
regulation style for the fruit. The tree!
lsv = yl.....sd close !. gether for tim
Der, ond tho crowding Injuries the nuts
The white walnuts, or butternuts, ar,
fairly profitable, but not SO much so a.
the black walnuts. The English fiber
is also being raised in this country will
considerable success. 1t produces fin
crop in almost any region where peach
es thrive, and, as everyone knows, tn
peach region in this country is wild
and extended. The hazel nuts ar
/ found growing wild over millions O
acres of land in the West and East; bu
the nuts have always been rather SINAI
! and inferior. A large and importan
, species has been found growing wild il
the far Northwest, and the new tree
: are being used as stock for the genera
q improvement of the nuts. BY Garrett
4 selection and cultivation the size of til
s nuts has been increased one-third t
one-half, and there is every reason I
n suppose that in the course of fe'
q more years our common wild haZt
|. nuts will be imp Jrtant commerce.
products. The improved English haZ
:, nut is cultivated here successfully, an
= a considerable crop harvested apnuall
e OF almonds little need be said. Cal
st fornia has entered SO extensively int
d the work of raising them that the ere
j. is valued at hundreds OF thousands
re dollars. This nut is a native of war
D. climate, and its culture will never e
ID tend beyond the Pacific coast and II
Id strip of land bordering the Gulf
st Mexico.