Growing Nuts in the North

Growing Nuts in the North

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Title: Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's
Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin
Author: Carl Weschcke
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[Illustration: Eat more nuts Carl Weschcke author]
GROWING NUTS IN THE NORTH

A personal story of the author's experience of 33 years with nut culture
in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Includes his failures as well as final
successes.
Scientific as well as readable for the amateur horticulturist with many
illustrations. Tells how to grow and to propagate nut bearing trees and
shrubs.
By CARL WESCHCKE

Published
WEBB PUBLISHING CO.
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, U.S.A.
1953
Copyright 1954
CARL WESCHCKE
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

Introduction
GROWING NUTS IN THE NORTH
Only a few books have been written on the subject of nut trees and their
bearing habits, and very little of that material applies to their
propagation in cold climates. For these reasons I am relating some of
the experiences I have had in the last thirty-two years in raising nut
trees in Wisconsin. To me, this has been a hobby with results both
practical and ornamental far beyond my original conception. I hope that
the information I am giving will be of help and interest to those who,
like myself, enjoy having nut-bearing trees in their dooryards, and that

it will prevent their undergoing the failures and disappointments I
sometimes met with in pioneering along this line. Since my purpose is
to give advice and assistance to those whose interest parallels mine by
relating my successes and failures and what I learned from each, I have
included only those details of technique which are pertinent.
It is a fine thing to have a hobby that takes one out-of-doors. That in
itself suggests healthful thought and living. The further association of
working with trees, as with any living things, brings one into the closest
association with nature and God. I hope this book may help someone
achieve that attitude of life, in which I have found such great pleasure
and inner satisfaction.
Anyone wishing to make a planting of a few nut trees in his dooryard
or a small orchard planting should join the Northern Nut Growers'
Association. This Association can be joined by writing the current
secretary, but since that office may be changed from time to time,
persons applying for membership should write George L. Slate of
Geneva Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, or Dr. H. L. Crane,
Principal Horticulturist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of
Plant Industry, Beltsville, Maryland, or the Author. The first president
was Dr. Robert T. Morris, New York City, N. Y., 1910-1911, the
Association being founded by Dr. W. C. Deming of Westchester, New
York, who called the first meeting in 1910.
Each year a report was printed of the proceedings of the Annual
Meeting and exclusive of the 1952 meeting, the Reports which are in
substantial book form number forty-two. Most of these Reports can be
obtained by writing to the secretary, the total library of these Reports
constituting one of the best authorities for nut tree planting in the
northern hemisphere of the United States than any extant.
The author acknowledges with thanks the consistent encouraging praise
from his father, Charles Weschcke, of the work involved in nut
growing experiments, also for his financial assistance, thus making the
publication of this book possible and available to readers at a nominal
price.

The editor of the greater part of this book, Allison Burbank Hartman (a
descendent of the great Luther Burbank), is entitled to great praise and
thanks for the interest and work she put forth.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to William Kuehn, the artist. He had
been associated with the author in Boy Scout work, also became a part
of the nut growing experiments in Northern Wisconsin, which work
was interrupted by World War II.
Acknowledgment is hereby made with gratitude to Dr. J. W. McKay of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Harry Weber
of Cincinnati, Ohio; Ford Wilkinson, Rockport, Ind.; Fayette Etter,
Lehmasters, Pa.; Dr. W. C. Deming, Litchfield, Conn.; Clarence A.
Reed, Washington, D. C.; Dr. J. Russell Smith, Swarthmore, Pa.;
George S. Slate, Urbana, Ill.; Herman Last,