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and fine this last year, the Barcelonas somewhat smaller. My ten and 

 twelve-year-old seedling walnuts averaged thirty pounds to the tree 

 (after drying). I find the nuts here must be artificially dried, and they 

 lost one-third in weight in curing. They were not as large as the year 

 before, although the Mayettes produced quite showy nuts. 



I give your readers these figures on the yield of young filbert trees, 

 as I consider them reliable, to show them what can be reasonably ex- 

 pected from the planting of filbert trees. I think, however, the rou.2:h 

 estimate of Mr. Biddle to be a little too high, but I requested him to be 

 kind enough next fall to ascertain for sure the yield in weight of his 

 filbert nuts per tree. Right here I would like to call the attention of 

 people desiring to plant filberts that the best and surest way of propa- 

 gating the filbert is "from layer," but never from the seed, or else taey 

 will expose themselves to bitter disappointment. In all filbert districts 

 the trees are propagated solely "from layers," never from the seed rov 

 from suckers, which are apt to sucker themselves; so they had better 

 keep a sharp lookout and be sure that seedlings nor suckers are not 

 passed on them for "rooted layers," the same as in Southern California, 

 unscrupulous fakirs are passing walnut trees simply cut back for 

 grafted trees, as the cut-back tree looks a good deal like a budded or 

 grafted one. With the present I send you a little box of filbert candy. 

 In the making of that candy I used the white and purple leaved 

 Avelines, for the pellicle of one is white, the other flesh colored, the re:l 

 Aveline, pellicle being too dark, though it is also a very fine nut. The 

 oblong filberts, like all those Avelines, crack very easily by laying 

 them on the face on something solid and striking them with an ordinary 

 hammer; but the round filberts have to be hit with a vei'y small hammer 

 on the small end, the shell bursting in two, letting the whole nut out. 

 I crush the ruts with a roller for the making of candy, but first flatten 

 them up with a flat iron; they may also be ground in a fine meat cutter.. 

 You will notice that the filbert candy I am sending you melts alto- 

 gether in the mouth. At the same time I send you two boxes of filberts 

 of what I consider so far my best varieties, viz., Du Chilly Cobnut, 

 Barcelona, White Aveline, Red Aveline, Purple-leaved Aveline, and 

 Emperor, the five former ones having been introduced by myself into 

 this country thirty to thirty-five years ago, the latter one by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, from Belgium in 1899. I am still experimenting^ 

 on ten more varieties introduced by the Department from Istria, Sicily, 

 and Belgium. 



WALNUT GROWING IN OREGON. 



Mr. Thos. Prince, the leading walnut grower of Oregon, and owner of 

 the largest bearing grove in the Northwest, read the following paper at 

 a meeting of the Horticultural Society at Forest Grove, February' 

 17, 1906. 



On my first trip to Oregon, some nine years ago, I met an old gentle- 

 man who was a native of England, and our conversation drifted to 



