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^OTES AT MR. BIXBY'S NUT ORCHARDS AND NURSERIES 

 BALDWIN, NASSAU CO., N. Y. 



September 4, 1924 



Japan walnuts (seedlings) on street set out in 1918 or 1919. 

 AH except the tree on the south have borne, 1924 being the third 

 year for one. One of them is a heartnut. 



Chinkajjins raised from seed outdoors. 



Black walnuts grown in pots and transplanted with a ball of earth 

 and the entire root. Set out without cutting back and sod and vines 

 allowed to grow around them. While they grew rapidly before trans- 

 planting they have scarcely grown since. 



Beaver Hickory seedlings. These illustrate well the information 

 to be obtained frequently as to parentage by raising seedlings. The 

 history of the Beaver tree was ascertained four or five years ago and 

 from this and the appearance of the tree and its nuts, it was decided 

 to be a shagbark x bitternut hybrid. The seedlings bear this out, 

 for they vary from seemingly pure shagbark to pure bitternut with 

 several in between looking somewhat like the parent tree. It may be 

 tliat some of these will bear nuts that will be found valuable. 



Japan walnut tree killed with butternut blight. 



Chestnut trees killed with chestnut blight. 



Main experimental orchard. This comprises about four acres and 

 is laid out in rows running north and south, starting at an east and 

 west road. There are 29 trees in each row running north and south, 

 the trees being about 15 feet apart. A nut tree is put every 30 feet 

 and a peach or apple or some other tree that is intended to be taken 

 out later, is put in between. 



Row 1 South— (1) Niblack Pecan (5) Warrick Pecan (7) War- 

 rick Pecan (9) Greenriver Pecan (11) Greenriver Pecan (13) Mahan 

 Hickory (15) Marquardt (f) Pecan (17) Siers Hickory (19) Wilkin- 

 son(?) Pecan (21) Kirtland Hickory (23) Greenbay Pecan (25) 

 Weiker Hickory (27) Burlington Pecan (29) Kentucky Hickory. 

 This Kentuckj' Hickory blossomed full and some two dozen nuts set 

 which grew to about 5/8 inches long then they dropped off. Probably 

 it will bear next year. 



Row 2 South — (4) Moneymaker Pecan (10) Pleas Hickory (24) 

 Dennis bitternut, bearing (26) Hatch Bitternut( .^). 



Row 3 South — (3) Stanley Hickory (5) Ridenhauer Almond (9) 

 Burkett Pecan (11) Hales Hickory on shagbark (13) Hales Hickory 

 on bitternut (21) Cedarapids Hickory on shagbark (23) Cedarapids 

 Hickory on bitternut (25) Dennis Hickory (27) Fairbanks Hickory. 



