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as I am a plantsman, and wlien considering where to grow plants I 

 would do so independently of state lines, or anything else. 



The black walnut grows from Maine down to Florida, from Ontario 

 down to Texas. It covers an enormous are.a, hut somewhere in that 

 area there is some latitude in which it thrives at its best. I live out 

 by the B. C. & A. station, and for the last five years have seen them 

 shipping' a tremendous stream of black walnut logs 18 feet and 20 feet 

 in circumference. I was told this had been going on for 25 years. 

 If they have been growing that many walnut trees and shipping them 

 out of Talbot County it shows very favorably that this is a splendid 

 location. I am not particularly interested in black walnuts. It is a 

 tree I always thought ugly from the artistic i)oint of view. Because I 

 have been engaged all my life in growing ornamentals it does uot 

 appeal to me, as it is more of a lumber proposition, but the English 

 waliuit does. 



Now my experience in Pennsylvania with the English walnut was 

 that it would not be profitable as an orchard croj). The climate wis 

 too severe on the young trees. Except in very favored positions and 

 localities they winter kill and it would take too long to bring an orchard 

 into bearing. This opinion comes not from the old trees but from 

 watching the young trees in the nursery. The risks are so great they 

 would likely eat up the profits in raising nuts commercially. You nuist 

 get in a latitude or in a place where the soil, climate and everything 

 is in your favor, and then you will be able to compete with the other 

 fellow. 



There is such a galaxy of spenkers on the program that I shall have 

 to stick very closely to my subject or I will encroach on others. The 

 main point I want to get across is rather a commercial one There is 

 lots of research work going on in the colleges and tiie experiment sta- 

 tions. These generally are interested in an academic way, but my inter- 

 est is in planting orchards where they may become a profitable industry. 

 I do not know very much about nut orchards, but I do know that, as 

 in every other business, there are two points to be considered — one is 

 production and the other is distribution or market. For production you 

 want to pick out a place where you can grow trees with everything in 

 your favor. All my working life I have been growing plants where 

 everything was against me, where we had to have green houses for 



