﻿APPENDIX 
  

  

  THE 
  HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  PERSIAN 
  WALNUT 
  IN 
  PENN- 
  

   SYLVANIA 
  

  

  J. 
  G. 
  Rush, 
  West 
  Willow, 
  Penns'ylvania 
  

  

  The 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  Persian 
  walnut 
  in 
  Pennsylvania 
  goes 
  back 
  

   several 
  hundred 
  years. 
  Seed 
  nuts 
  only 
  were 
  brought 
  here 
  by 
  the 
  

   early 
  German 
  settlers, 
  as 
  steam 
  navigation 
  was 
  unknown 
  at 
  that 
  

   period. 
  From 
  this 
  mixture 
  of 
  seed 
  from 
  Europe, 
  we 
  have 
  at 
  this 
  

   time 
  a 
  few 
  varieties 
  worthy 
  of 
  favorable 
  mention. 
  In 
  this 
  connec- 
  

   tion 
  I 
  will 
  give 
  you 
  my 
  brief 
  history 
  or 
  experiences 
  and 
  observa- 
  

   tion 
  for 
  the 
  last 
  twenty-nine 
  years. 
  

  

  In 
  1886 
  I 
  bought 
  two 
  seedling 
  trees 
  from 
  a 
  local 
  nursery 
  regard- 
  

   less 
  of 
  name 
  or 
  variety 
  at 
  thirty-five 
  cents 
  each. 
  These 
  two 
  trees 
  

   received 
  equal 
  treatment 
  in 
  culture 
  for 
  ten 
  years, 
  when 
  the 
  so- 
  

   called 
  Rush 
  tree 
  produced 
  two 
  bushels 
  of 
  fine 
  developed 
  nuts. 
  

   The 
  other 
  tree 
  about 
  forty 
  feet 
  away 
  has 
  not 
  produced 
  two 
  bushels 
  

   from 
  the 
  time 
  it 
  was 
  planted 
  to 
  the 
  present 
  date. 
  

  

  The 
  productiveness 
  of 
  the 
  Rush 
  induced 
  me 
  to 
  think, 
  and 
  to 
  

   investigate 
  the 
  great 
  difference 
  in 
  these 
  two 
  trees. 
  I 
  finally 
  found 
  

   the 
  Rush 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  simultaneous 
  bloomer 
  whereas 
  the 
  other 
  was 
  just 
  

   the 
  reverse. 
  

  

  Being 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Horticultural 
  Association 
  I 
  exhibited 
  

   these 
  nuts 
  from 
  time 
  to 
  time 
  when 
  finally 
  other 
  members 
  became 
  

   interested 
  in 
  nut 
  culture. 
  Mr. 
  John 
  Engle 
  of 
  the 
  Marietta 
  Nur- 
  

   series 
  advised 
  me 
  to 
  plant 
  seed 
  from 
  this 
  particular 
  tree 
  and 
  raise 
  

   seedling 
  trees 
  for 
  sale. 
  I 
  finally 
  did 
  on 
  a 
  small 
  scale 
  only. 
  But 
  I 
  

   soon 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  young 
  seedlings 
  a 
  taint 
  of 
  black 
  walnut 
  blood, 
  

   which 
  discouraged 
  me 
  for 
  a 
  further 
  continuance. 
  Later 
  I 
  had 
  cor- 
  

   respondence 
  with 
  J. 
  F. 
  Jones, 
  then 
  of 
  Monticello, 
  Fla., 
  who 
  had 
  

   specialized 
  in 
  the 
  propagation 
  of 
  all 
  nut 
  trees. 
  In 
  1903 
  scions 
  were 
  

   sent 
  to 
  him, 
  and 
  returned 
  as 
  budded 
  trees 
  in 
  1905. 
  and 
  are 
  now 
  a 
  

   living 
  monument 
  to 
  the 
  memory 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  propagator 
  of 
  the 
  

   Rush 
  variety. 
  

  

  The 
  Pennsylvania 
  state 
  nursery 
  inspector 
  first 
  called 
  my 
  at- 
  

   tention 
  to 
  the 
  Hall 
  variety 
  in 
  Erie 
  County, 
  Pa., 
  after 
  which 
  a 
  

   lively 
  correspondence 
  followed 
  and 
  sample 
  nuts 
  were 
  exchanged. 
  

   In 
  1910 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  F, 
  Jones 
  and 
  myself 
  were 
  to 
  see 
  this 
  tree, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  

  

  