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This is an Alpine tree in J. F. Jones' test orchard in Lancaster, 

 Pennsylvania. It had four heaped half-bushel baskets at ten years old. 



This is the late John G. Rush who was instrumental in getting 

 Mr. Jones to come from Florida to solve nut problems. That tree 

 had three bushels of nuts on it at eleven years of age. 



This is a close-up view of a limb of one of his English walnuts 

 standing between two stone drives with concrete wall on each side, 

 five years old, well-loaded with nuts. 



This is a seedling standing at Bally, Pennsylvania, 25 miles north- 

 west of Philadelphia. It is one of the most beautiful English walnut 

 trees I have ever seen in my life. It has been bearing since 15 years 

 old. Seven bushels of nuts. 



This is a seedling orchard of 120 trees, twelve years old, in Allen- 

 town, Pennsylvania, on General Trexell's place, who has 10,000 acres 

 of land. 



This is a picture in California. The California climate seems to 

 be very well adapted to English walnut culture. In 1867 the first 

 grove was planted. It took twenty more years before people became 

 very much interested and then the propagated tree proved to be so 

 much more successful than the seedling that the seedling was discarded 

 and old groves were worked over. This grove is interesting in con- 

 sidering tlie question of how far apart to plant your trees. These 

 were planted 10 x 40 feet apart and at 40 years of age bore fifteen 

 hundred pounds to the acre. They cut out every other row, leaving 

 them 40 x 80, and in four years they ran 3,000 pounds of nuts to 

 the acre. 



This is a thirty-five year old grove, a most beautiful sight, but 

 only bearing partial crops because they are so crowded that they don't 

 grow enough wood on which to develop nuts. 



This is a long pole with a hook on the end which is used to shake 

 off the nuts. They go around the tree with this and hook it into the 

 limbs, which is an economical way to shake them down. After this 

 they are gathered up in bags and taken into the drying and washing 

 shed. I was given an idea the other day about gathering nuts after 

 lecturing before a Rotary Club. A man told me he was from Okla- 

 homa and was in business there growing pecans with a partner. This 

 partner conceived the idea of taking a big canvas and putting it on 

 legs under the tree. There was an opening near the centre of it along- 



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