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It conies originally from the mountains of northwestern India and 

 Persia. It sjoread east into China. It spread into Greece by gifts 

 from royalties in Persia, and was there thought so much of that it 

 was called "Food of the God Jupiter." From there it spread into 

 Rome and was called the "Royal nut." Rome spread the nut on into 

 France by invasions into that country and it was there popularly known 

 as the "Gaul nut." From there it was spread into Britain by the 

 Roman armies and was known as the walnut, which is the English 

 corruption of Gaul nut. 



This picture is a garden in Italy. I want to bring out the utility 

 in the picture. Here is the English walnut, here the grapes, and 

 they grow also citrous fruits and peaches, all in the same patch of 

 ground. 



Here is a picture of a small family group in France sorting their 

 English walnuts and getting them ready for bleaching in the sul- 

 phur vat. 



This is their outdoor drying yard. They have a great deal of 

 trouble with this method in damp weather to get the nuts dry enough 

 to keep them from moulding in storage. 



Dehydrating is coming into use in France very rapidly. In 1923 

 only 9% was dehydrated; in 1926, 35% was dried that way. 



Here is an English walnut tree 200 years old and the timber is 

 valued at about $150. You often have the question asked: "Does it 

 pay to plant nut trees?" A hundred thousand such trees worth $100 

 each would make a nice investment to hand on to posterity ! Some- 

 time ago I met an old nut candy maker, 74 years old, in Philadelphia. 

 After I had introduced myself, he expressed himself as follows : 

 "Hershey, would you like to be worth a million dollars at 75?" I 

 said I would be very much interested. He replied : "Go out and bu}' 

 500 acres of land, and plant it in black walnuts and I guarantee you 

 will be worth one million dollars at 75." 



Pomeroy's English walnuts grow in Lockport, New York. He 

 owns the orchard that his father set out a good many years ago. He 

 got the seed in Philadelphia and it is now a really profitable orchard. 

 He has sold as high as 2,000 pounds of nuts per year from tlie orchard. 

 He gets 10 to 50 cents a pound right off the lawn. You can see there 

 the nice sized trees. The picture was taken when they were seventeen 

 years old. 



