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their inspectors over the country to make a collection of all walnuts 

 of merit and forward them to me for classification and identification 

 of varieties which may be worth perpetuating. As almost all the large 

 number of trees in this country are seedlings I am hopeful that some 

 interesting material may be located." 



Here is a letter from Mr. Richard H. Turk. Vice-Pre>>ident for the 

 state of Washington: 



"Your request for a report from this Pacific Coast state came as a 

 surprise. The Western Walnut Growers' Association is very strongly 

 orgianized as regards Oregon and Washington^ and it is difficult to pur- 

 suade our nut growers here to join an association with its base of oper- 

 ations so far removed as the Northern Nut Growers' Association. I 

 believe that I have been responsible for an additional membership of 

 at least one or two which I think can be considerably augmented this 

 fall. 



Filbert growing has firmly caught hold of the enthusiasm of the 

 people here. The acreage has reached 2.000 acres as compared to 

 a bare 1.50 acres of six years ago. I estimate a planting of 1,500 addi- 

 tional acres to this quick bearing nut, this season. I have trees 

 enough in my nursery to plant 600 acres but regard the majoritj- of the 

 plants as being too small. Planters plant even the smallest one-year 

 layers out a distance varying from ten to twenty-five feet. I regard 

 this as a waste of time, money and energy. Trees with two year old 

 roots are none too big. The variety most planted is the Barcelona, 

 closely followed by Du Chilly, and is supported by pollinizers for 

 these two varieties at the rate of one poUinizer to every nine of the 

 commercial sort. Intent eyes are watching every new seedling in 

 search of new and superior varieties. Some have been found and will be 

 propagated. Nut growers are but warming to the idea. I am put- 

 ting out eight thousand four-year old seedling filbert trees in orchard 

 form to be tested for qualities desired in a better filbert. 



Tree filberts instead of bushes is a new idea tlint is fast gaining 

 headway against the old method of removing the suckers by hand 

 each season. Corylus colurna, the Turkish species, and Corylus chin- 

 ensis, the Chinese tree hazel, are most favored as stocks. It has been 

 found that these trees are easily grafted to filberts, that they are ex- 

 tremely hardy and grow twice as fast as the filbert, and that the vigor 

 of the stock enlarges the size of the nut, regardless of variety. J'ore- 

 most in the recommendation of grafted tree filberts, I have corres- 

 pondants in many foreign countries and have arranged for the delivery 

 of several thousand j^ounds of these nuts to grow seedlings of. 



The tree hazel is of the future as yet, and one must recognize the 

 demand for layered stock until replaced by what appears to be better. 

 To add at least thirty acres to my present filbert plantings this year 

 is my desire. I am planting at least 400 trees to the acre as inter- 

 plants in a grafted walnut orchard. Xo use in wasting time before the 



