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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

Release Date: April 17, 2006 [EBook #18189]

Language: English

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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