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side of a central hole to fit the trunk of the tree, with a lace adjustment 

 in order that the canvas could be fitted to any size tree trunk. Then 

 a barrel was set under the funnel opening. You shook your nuts on 

 the canvas and when the barrel was full you took it away and rolled 

 another in. 



This is Mr. J. F. Jones with a three-year-old Faust heart nut tree. 

 I forget how many clusters of nuts there are, but quite a bunch. That 

 is a wonderful picture of Mr. Jones' alongside some of his scientific 

 work. This is his little daughter with a two-j^ear-old butternut tree. 



This is a two-year-old Stabler black walnut. It has been my ex- 

 perience that a four or five foot tree makes a much nicer tree to 

 plant than a smaller one. That tree is nnich larger than a tree of tlie 

 same age only two or three feet high when planted would be. 



This is a 5-year-old Stabler standing in Mr. Littlepage's place at 

 Bowie, Maryland. IMr. Littlepage has planted about 125 of these 

 trees and they are doing nicely. 



This is a 7-year-old Stabler standing in the corner of his barnyard 

 and is as large as his 8-year-old trees and 9-year-old trees where they 

 are not so well fed. 



This is a row of Stablers stretched out across his farm for a long 

 way, and it is the most beautiful setting you can imagine. 



Tliis is a picture of the Ohio variety of black walnut. This is Mr. 

 Jones and his 10-year-old Ohio, which is loaded with nuts. 



This is an Ohio on Dr. J. Russell Smith's place, standing on his 

 fence row among the rocks and stones of the Virginia mountains. It 

 seems to be doing very well. About eight years old. 



This comes from Ithaca, New York, 124 nuts, six years old. 



This is one of Dr. J. Russell Smith's Ohio showings, one nut the 

 second year after budding. 



This is the Thomas variety of black walnut, taken at the West 

 Town Quaker Schools near Philadelphia. We must admire the West 

 Town people for having the initiative to do experimental planting. 

 The}^ have an extensive orchard of aj^ples, cherries and peaches and 

 the}^ decided to try out a few nuts. They set out 36 Thomas and in- 

 terplanted them with apples. At five years of age the apple trees 

 are only half as large as the nut trees. Those trees bore from 109 to 

 1 35 nuts each which were sold for 20c a pound, but the apple trees 

 bore nothing. 



