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  EXAMPLES 
  OF 
  SOME 
  RECENT 
  CORRESPONDENCE 
  

  

  Farmingdale, 
  III., 
  August 
  5, 
  1914. 
  

  

  I 
  am 
  interested 
  in 
  fruit 
  and 
  nuts 
  of 
  all 
  kinds, 
  but 
  plant 
  only 
  for 
  

   home 
  use 
  and 
  experimentally. 
  

  

  I 
  believe 
  the 
  chestnut 
  is 
  a 
  better 
  money 
  nut 
  here 
  than 
  the 
  pecan, 
  

   as 
  natives 
  here 
  bear 
  very 
  sparsely 
  and 
  irregularly 
  although 
  the 
  

   catkins 
  or 
  male 
  part 
  usually 
  come 
  out 
  in 
  great 
  profusion. 
  

  

  I 
  note 
  that 
  you 
  say 
  ''there 
  is 
  probably 
  not 
  much 
  use 
  in 
  trying 
  to 
  

   grow 
  the 
  pecan 
  or 
  Persian 
  walnut 
  outside 
  the 
  peach 
  area." 
  Here 
  

   our 
  pecan 
  seems 
  as 
  hardy 
  as 
  the 
  average 
  apple, 
  withstanding 
  25° 
  

   below 
  zero 
  or 
  more 
  with 
  little 
  or 
  no 
  injury. 
  I 
  find 
  that 
  the 
  " 
  Andrus" 
  

   Persian 
  walnut 
  is 
  much 
  hardier 
  than 
  the 
  "Pomeroy" 
  as 
  I 
  

   planted 
  two 
  small 
  one-year 
  trees 
  that 
  endured 
  the 
  following 
  winter 
  

   20° 
  below, 
  with 
  no 
  injury 
  to 
  even 
  terminal 
  buds. 
  So 
  twenty 
  years 
  

   may 
  show 
  a 
  change 
  of 
  opinion 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  Persian 
  walnut 
  

   in 
  the 
  Middle 
  West. 
  

  

  The 
  Japanese 
  walnuts 
  here 
  are 
  often 
  injured 
  by 
  winter 
  ht 
  IS'' 
  

   below, 
  but 
  there 
  may 
  be 
  hardier 
  types 
  and 
  varieties 
  than 
  those 
  I 
  have 
  

   tried. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  never 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  graft 
  the 
  pecan 
  successfully 
  — 
  annual 
  or 
  

   budding 
  has 
  given 
  me 
  the 
  only 
  success 
  I 
  have 
  had. 
  And 
  in 
  years 
  

   like 
  this 
  and 
  last, 
  I 
  find 
  it 
  very 
  difficult 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  transplanted 
  

   grafted 
  pecan 
  live 
  without 
  watering. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  failed, 
  so 
  far, 
  in 
  finding 
  a 
  practical 
  method 
  to 
  keep 
  chest- 
  

   nuts 
  in 
  good 
  eating 
  and 
  planting 
  condition 
  until 
  spring. 
  If 
  stored 
  

   in 
  the 
  ground 
  cellar 
  or 
  as 
  peach 
  pits, 
  they 
  mould, 
  if 
  kept 
  in 
  an 
  ordi- 
  

   nary 
  building 
  they 
  become 
  too 
  dry. 
  

  

  Benjamin 
  Buckman. 
  

  

  