. Pleasant Valley Nurseries : 1900 [catalog]. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit New Jersey Catalogs; Trees New Jersey Catalogs. PECANS. Pecan culture is rapidly increasing, there being few trees that yield so regular and large an income after they attain bearing age, which is 6 or 8 years after planting. Any soil where the hickory grows is suitable to Pecans, but trees grown in rich, alluvial soil produce larger crops. Nuts may be planted in the place where trees are to grow permanently, but experienced Pecan growers of Louisiana advise raising the trees in the nur- sery one or two year
. Pleasant Valley Nurseries : 1900 [catalog]. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit New Jersey Catalogs; Trees New Jersey Catalogs. PECANS. Pecan culture is rapidly increasing, there being few trees that yield so regular and large an income after they attain bearing age, which is 6 or 8 years after planting. Any soil where the hickory grows is suitable to Pecans, but trees grown in rich, alluvial soil produce larger crops. Nuts may be planted in the place where trees are to grow permanently, but experienced Pecan growers of Louisiana advise raising the trees in the nur- sery one or two years before planting in the orchard. In growth, the Pecan is symmetrical. It is valuable as a shade tree, retaining its light green foliage until late in fall. It pro- duces sweet, oblong, thin-shelled nuts in great abundance. 25 cts. each, $ per doz., $20 per 100. FILBERTS, (hazel nuts.) Of easy culture, dwarf, hardy ; good croppers, have Filberts. Kvery one should Pecan. Kentish Cob. One of the largest and finest of Filberts ; meaty and of excellent quality. 50 cts. each, $5 per SHELLBARKS. A hardy, thrifty, large-growing tree; nut sweet, of excellent flavor, shelled. Wood valuable for timber. 50 cts. each, $5 per doz., $40 per 100. thin- ALMONDS. Hard-Shell. Hardy, with large, plump kernel. Blossoms attractive and hand- some. Tree a good cropper. The shell cracks when fruit ripens, and the kernel drops out. 25 cts. each, $ per doz. Soft, or Paper-Shell. This is the Sheiibark. Almond of Commerce. The nuts are more highly flavored and of better quality than those of the Hard-shell, but the bush is not so hardy. Succeeds as far north as Philadelphia. 25 cts. each, $ per doz. BUTTERNUTS. Tree a rapid, lofty grower ; ornamental; bears young and heavily. Nuts are longer than those of the black wal- nut ; the kernels are sweeter and of more delicious flavor. 50 cts. each, $5 per doz., $40 per Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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