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  Arlington 
  Farm. 
  

  

  Juglans 
  sieboldiana. 
  Juglans 
  australis, 
  probably 
  from 
  South 
  America. 
  

  

  Twenty-three 
  exhibits 
  of 
  almonds 
  from 
  different 
  California 
  growers. 
  

   J. 
  G. 
  Rush, 
  West 
  Willow, 
  Pa. 
  

  

  Lancaster, 
  Nebo, 
  Hall, 
  Rush 
  and 
  Kaghazi 
  walnuts, 
  Barcelona 
  filberts, 
  Weiker 
  

  

  and 
  La 
  Fevre 
  shellbark 
  hickories. 
  

   Prof. 
  V. 
  R. 
  Gardner, 
  Experiment 
  Station, 
  Corvallis, 
  Oregon. 
  

  

  Eleven 
  varieties 
  of 
  filberts. 
  

   W. 
  C. 
  Reed 
  & 
  Son, 
  Vincennes, 
  Ind. 
  

  

  Beard, 
  Indiana, 
  Kentucky, 
  Letcher, 
  Luce, 
  Major, 
  Niblack, 
  Posey, 
  and 
  War- 
  

   rick 
  pecans. 
  

   T. 
  P. 
  Littlepage, 
  Boonville, 
  Ind. 
  

  

  Kentucky 
  pecans. 
  

   J. 
  F. 
  Jones, 
  Lancaster, 
  Pa. 
  

  

  Lancaster 
  and 
  Holden 
  walnuts, 
  Weiker 
  shellbark 
  and 
  Kirtland 
  shagbark 
  

  

  hickories, 
  Barcelona 
  filberts 
  and 
  photographs 
  of 
  the 
  Lancaster 
  tree. 
  

  

  Ninety-six 
  exhibits 
  of 
  southern 
  grown 
  pecans 
  by 
  various 
  exhibitors. 
  

  

  WILDEE 
  MEDAL 
  FOE 
  EXHIBITION 
  OF 
  NUTS 
  

  

  The 
  American 
  Pomological 
  Society 
  awarded 
  the 
  Northern 
  Nut 
  Growers 
  

   Association 
  a 
  bronze 
  Wilder 
  Medal 
  for 
  the 
  exhibition 
  of 
  nuts 
  at 
  the 
  fourth 
  

   annual 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Association 
  at 
  Washington, 
  D. 
  C, 
  November 
  18 
  and 
  19, 
  

   1913. 
  

  

  GEOEGE 
  W. 
  ENDICOTT— 
  THE 
  BOONE 
  CHESTNUT 
  

   E, 
  A, 
  EiEHL, 
  Alton, 
  Illinois 
  

  

  George 
  W. 
  Endicott 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  Belmont 
  County, 
  Ohio, 
  July 
  25, 
  1837. 
  He 
  

   joined 
  the 
  Forty-eighth 
  Illinois 
  Infantry 
  in 
  1861, 
  serving 
  nearly 
  three 
  years, 
  

   when 
  he 
  was 
  discharged 
  owing 
  to 
  wounds 
  received. 
  Then 
  he 
  went 
  to 
  farming 
  

   in 
  Wayne 
  County. 
  In 
  1867 
  he 
  settled 
  at 
  Villa 
  Eidge, 
  111., 
  devoting 
  himself 
  to 
  

   fruit 
  and 
  vegetable 
  growing, 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  was 
  eminently 
  successful. 
  Mr. 
  Endi- 
  

   cott 
  was 
  a 
  man 
  of 
  strong 
  character 
  and 
  a 
  leader 
  in 
  his 
  community. 
  Energetic 
  

   and 
  up 
  to 
  date 
  in 
  all 
  his 
  operations, 
  he 
  procured 
  and 
  tested 
  all 
  kinds 
  of 
  new 
  

   fruits 
  as 
  fast 
  as 
  introduced. 
  He 
  died 
  at 
  his 
  home 
  November 
  14, 
  1913. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  greatest 
  interest 
  to 
  the 
  nut 
  growers 
  of 
  this 
  country 
  was 
  his 
  work 
  of 
  

   creating 
  the 
  Boone 
  chestnut. 
  About 
  1888 
  Mr. 
  Endicott 
  conceived 
  the 
  idea 
  of 
  

   producing 
  a 
  cross 
  between 
  the 
  American 
  and 
  Japan 
  chestnuts 
  and 
  getting 
  one 
  

   combining 
  the 
  sweetness 
  of 
  the 
  native 
  with 
  the 
  large 
  size, 
  early 
  ripening 
  and 
  

   young 
  bearing 
  habits 
  of 
  the 
  Japan. 
  He 
  encountered 
  an 
  obstacle 
  in 
  the 
  fact 
  

   that 
  the 
  Japan 
  blossomed 
  before 
  the 
  native 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  until 
  seven 
  years 
  

   later 
  that 
  he 
  found 
  a 
  native 
  blossoming 
  early 
  enough 
  to 
  make 
  the 
  cross. 
  In 
  the 
  

   spring 
  of 
  1895 
  he 
  carefully 
  hand 
  pollinated 
  some 
  Japan 
  Giant 
  with 
  the 
  pollen 
  

   of 
  this 
  early 
  flowering 
  native, 
  sacking 
  the 
  same 
  to 
  prevent 
  other 
  pollen 
  reaching 
  

   them. 
  The 
  seed 
  so 
  produced 
  was 
  planted 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1896 
  in 
  rich 
  soil 
  

   that 
  had 
  been 
  used 
  as 
  a 
  vegetable 
  garden. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  seeds 
  so 
  planted 
  bore 
  six 
  

   burs 
  in 
  1897, 
  eighteen 
  months 
  after 
  planting 
  the 
  seed 
  and 
  has 
  produced 
  crops 
  

   every 
  year 
  since 
  as 
  follows: 
  1898, 
  1 
  pound 
  of 
  nuts; 
  1899, 
  3 
  pounds 
  of 
  nuts; 
  

   1900, 
  5 
  pounds 
  of 
  nuts; 
  1901, 
  6 
  pounds 
  of 
  nuts; 
  1902, 
  8 
  pounds 
  of 
  nuts; 
  1903, 
  

   12 
  pounds 
  of 
  nuts; 
  1904, 
  17 
  pounds 
  of 
  nuts; 
  1905, 
  25 
  pounds 
  of 
  nuts; 
  1906, 
  31 
  

   pounds 
  of 
  nuts; 
  1907, 
  43 
  pounds 
  of 
  nuts; 
  1908, 
  50 
  pounds 
  of 
  nuts; 
  1909, 
  56 
  

  

  