As to the kinds of nuts to be planted that depends on what you want to grow. If chestnuts it must be remembered that the bark disease is very likely to attack them, in the East at any rate. Experiments with chestnuts outside the range of the blight are very desirable. The American (_Castanea dentata_) and European (_C. sativa_) chestnuts are specially susceptible. The Asiatic chestnuts (_C. Japonica_, etc.) seem to have a partial immunity, especially the Korean, and it is possible that the native chestnut grafted on these may be rendered more or less immune. It is being tried and is an interesting experiment. The Asiatic chestnut trees are dwarfish in habit, come into bearing early, the nuts are generally large and some of them of pretty good quality. They may be planted as fillers between the trees of larger growth. The nuts may be bought of importers. (See circular on "Seedsmen and Nurserymen".) The small Korean chestnut has been especially recommended. If you wish to grow the shagbark hickory (_Hicoria ovata_) plant the best specimens of this nut you can get, or the bitternut (_H. minima_) which is said to be a superior stock for grafting. High hopes are held that that other favorite hickory, the pecan (_H. pecan_) may be grown far outside its native range, and the Indiana pecan is the nut on which these hopes are founded. Seed nuts may be obtained from reliable Indiana dealers, but it is said that some of them are not reliable. The hickories may be budded and grafted on one another so that one kind of stock may serve for both shagbark and pecan. If you want to grow the Persian walnut (_Juglans regia_), often called the "English" walnut, the black walnut (_J. nigra_), seems to afford the most promising stock, though _J. rupestris_, native in Texas and Arizona, has been recommended and _J. cordiformis_, the Japanese heart nut, is also promising. This nut can be recommended for planting for its own sake as the tree is hardy, a rapid grower, comes into bearing early and bears a fairly good nut. There are no grafted trees, however, so the variable seedlings will have to be depended upon. On any of these walnut stocks the black walnut and the butternut (_J. cinerea_) may also be propagated if worthy varieties can be found. There are none now on the market. The nuts mentioned are enough for the beginner and the three stocks, chestnut, hickory and walnut, will give him all he wants to work on and furnish plenty of fascinating occupation. The hazel, the almond and others, though offering possibilities, had better be left to those further advanced in the art of nut growing. Now the nut orchard is started and the owner must push the growth of the trees by the ordinary methods, cultivation, cover crops and fertilizers. See any authority on growing fruit trees.