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Fuller: Orcliard i)laiitiiig — Quality nuts. The best and longest 

 keeper. 



Various Nut Species in Sod 



8. Ncza seedling walmit, 2 yrs. from graft. Grows too heavy and 

 must be supi)orted. This one broke with the great weight of the tojD, 

 as did several others. 



9. Stabler walnut. Immediate graft, May 5th, 1925. 



10. Beginning of a hickory grove. Grafted April 2U, 1925. 



11. 5 yr. old Thomas in bearing. 



12. Fairbanks on pecan, 1924. 



Profitable use of rough hilly land, preventing erosion. Pasturage — 

 sheep and cows ; blue grass sod. 



13. Champion chestnut: Original tree. A seedling of Rochester. 



14. Papaxv trees: Remarkable size — quality fruit. Very good 

 for those who like them. 



15. Black walnut grafted on white walnut. Rather unusual op- 

 eration. 



16. Chestnut fertilized with nitrate of soda, compared with one 

 of same variety, not fertilized. 



17. Parent tree of promising black walnut seedling. Nut large, 

 of fine flavor, and excellent cracking quality. Tree remarkably fast 

 grower, and seems to resist fungus disease that affects others. Has 

 borne only 2 small crops. 



18. Group of Rochesters bearing good crop. 



19. Chestnut Riehl Seedling No. 60. Parent tree; bears almost 

 as constantly and heavily as Boone. Nuts, early, sweet and of fair 

 size, generally drop from the tree before the bur. 



20. Chestnut No. 01. Parent tree; nuts good, large, attractive 

 color and drop from the bur. 



21. Lovett in sod. Nuts small. Needs cultivation. 



22. Group of Progress, topworked. 



