﻿106 
  

  

  Toronto 
  and 
  those 
  two 
  trees 
  fifteen 
  and 
  seventeen 
  feet 
  high 
  have 
  not 
  

   a 
  twig 
  killed. 
  They 
  do 
  not 
  bear 
  as 
  early 
  as 
  the 
  Japanese. 
  Their 
  

   leaves 
  are 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  English 
  walnut 
  but 
  the 
  nut 
  is 
  fully 
  

   as 
  good 
  as 
  the 
  best 
  California, 
  Persian 
  walnut 
  that 
  ever 
  reached 
  the 
  

   market. 
  Many 
  of 
  the 
  nuts 
  are 
  paper 
  shelled, 
  some 
  burst 
  open 
  at 
  

   the 
  suture. 
  Their 
  appearance 
  is 
  almost 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  the 
  English 
  but 
  

   the 
  tree 
  is 
  much 
  hardier, 
  growing 
  at 
  the 
  extreme 
  north 
  of 
  China. 
  

   Then 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  tree 
  that 
  the 
  nurserymen 
  of 
  Ontario 
  have 
  been 
  

   selling 
  as 
  "Enghsh" 
  walnuts 
  and 
  guaranteeing 
  to 
  be 
  hardy. 
  But 
  

   as 
  soon 
  as 
  we 
  saw 
  the 
  leaf 
  and 
  the 
  trunk 
  we 
  at 
  once 
  knew 
  them 
  for 
  

   north 
  Chinese 
  walnuts 
  and 
  upon 
  being 
  told 
  that, 
  the 
  men 
  acknowl- 
  

   edged 
  that 
  they 
  were. 
  Just 
  today 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  speaking 
  to 
  a 
  mis- 
  

   sionary 
  from 
  the 
  extreme 
  north 
  of 
  China 
  and 
  he 
  informs 
  me 
  that 
  

   they 
  have 
  two 
  feet 
  of 
  ice 
  every 
  winter 
  where 
  these 
  trees 
  grow 
  in 
  

   abundance 
  with 
  the 
  finest 
  nuts 
  he 
  ever 
  saw. 
  This 
  fact 
  and 
  the 
  fact 
  

   that 
  really 
  good 
  pecans 
  can 
  grow 
  up 
  north 
  are 
  the 
  two 
  facts 
  that 
  

   I 
  wish 
  this 
  association 
  to 
  work 
  on 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  get 
  results 
  that 
  are 
  

   certain 
  of 
  success. 
  

  

  