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Chinese walnut trees from Mr. Jones. Tliey were sold to him as 

 Manchurian walnuts. I saw them two 3^eairs ago planted in sod, not 

 given special attention. He wrote to me two weeks ago that they 

 were doing splendidly. That is up in northern Michigan where it 

 gets down to 15 to 20 below zero. 



Two years ago I made a trip about Michigan with Professor 

 Gardiner, professor and director of horticulture in that state. He is 

 nn old schoolmate of mine. He heard m£ talking to one of the growers 

 about the possibility of planting some Persian Walnuts, and made 

 this statement: "Your Persian walnuts in Michigan are worth about 

 20% less than nothing." And yet we have in this picture Chinese 

 walnuts that are making phenomenal growth on the place of ai Chicago 

 engineer, Mr. E. E. Bellow. He has seedling trees from two other 

 sources, some from Rochester and some from Mr. Pomeroy of Lock- 

 jDort, more recently. He says that his Lockport trees which he planted 

 this spring are doing well this summer. Mr. Littlepage invited me 

 to make a trip through New Jersey. He was going to see a tree of 

 the "Startling" apple. While we were going around this man's 

 place who owns the apple tree, we came to a Persian walnut. He said 

 it was a Pomeroy seedling. He had 50 at one time but they were so 

 subject to winter and spring freezing that he could not raise them 

 profitably. His land was worth much more to him to grow apples 

 and peaches. There was a. case where 50 well-cared-for walnut trees 

 were pulled out because he found they did not pay. Climatic con- 

 ditions were too severe, and that is one place in all the East, right 

 there near Delaware bay and not so far from the Atlantic Ocean, 

 where you would naturally suppose that walnuts should do as well 

 as any place in the East. 



Question: How do you explain the term "severity" in making 

 trees fail in Delaware when they survive here? 



Mr. Reed: Of course some of them survive there. That is a 

 relative term and your term "survive here" is relative. 



Questioner: I took you to mean they were not doing as well in 

 Delaware as around Niagara. 



^Mr. Reed: I do not know cf any trees around Niagara. There 



