Here is a surprise nut and tree to Oklahoma people. Both are unlike
anything ever seen here. When they see this most unusual tree, with its
tropical leaves and taste the delicious nuts they want a tree for their
yard. Visitors stare in amazement at the immense catkins, and the
grape-like clusters of nuts that develop later. This is a heartnut year.
In most all varieties, ten to fifteen nuts to the cluster hang from the
terminal of each twig. The leaves sun-burn easily. In spite of this we
had a heavy crop of well-filled nuts. Of the several varieties I have,
Stranger is the most prolific. Fodemaier, and Walters bloom late enough
to escape our late spring freezes, are larger nuts, and should prove to
be the best eventually.