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other young trees from the walnut, but the nut has always failed to germinate. The 

 tree I refer to is healthy, and produces a fair crop of nuts ; but that is the only tree I 

 know of in the county. 



Mr. President Dejipsey. — There is a black walnut tree standing in the county of 

 Prince Edward that would make two standard saw-logs. I got a bushel of nuts from it 

 last fall, and I have only three of them that have germinated. I saw walnuts that were 

 planted a year ago, and they failed to germinate till near the fall. 



Mr. Leslie. — We have grown very few of the trees. We find great difficulty in 

 germinating the nuts. They live all right after they are germinated. 



Mr. Gott.— Both the black walnut and the white walnut, if they are covered with 

 damp earth for the winter, immediately upon their being taken from the tree, and then 

 planted in rows in the seed bed, will usually germinate, the whole of them ; but should 

 not the whole of them germinate, they will quietly lie there till the next spring and then 

 will germinate. After they are germinated they will grow, and are easily cultivated. 

 Transplant them the next spring, and they are easily got along with. 



Mr. Graham. — A year ago there were some nuts sent me, and I have two trees 

 growing from them now. I put them out a year ago this last spring. There were trees 

 grown there before that that were drawn to Belleville as saw-logs. They are quite hardy. 



Col. McGill. — There are walnuts growing in East Whitby and West Whitby — I 

 think the largest in the group is eight or nine inches through. I find no difficulty in 

 germinating the nuts, more than I do those of the common butternut. I generally put 

 them into a box and fill it up with sawdust, and let it stand out in the ground all winter 

 and freeze, and then move them in the spring, and set out those that have cracked. 

 When I was a boy there was a good deal of walnut growing about the Whitby harbour. 

 I have seen nothing approximating to profit in growing black walnut, the second crop, 

 I am quite satisfied that if all the walnut trees that are growing in the two Whitbys to- 

 day were cut and sawed, we should not get a hundred feet of black walnut altogether. 

 The trees grow too slowly; our grand-children might profit a little by them, but nobody 

 before them. Up about Goderich there used to be plenty of black walnut, but it has 

 never been a natural tree to this section of Canada, and I question whether it is to be- 

 expected that where trees do not grow naturally you can set them out and make them a 

 success for lumber. 



Mr. President Dempsey. — There is no question that the man who planted this tree 

 that I refer to is a younger man than Col. McGill, and he got two standard saw-logs out 

 of it. 



Mr. Beall. — With regard to germinating the black walnut, our friends here should 

 not give up because they do not germinate the first year. I have a lot of trees that 

 germinated only after they had been in the ground three winters ; and then every nut 

 came up. If the nuts are fresh and good when they are put into the ground, every nut 

 will grow; if they do not come up in three years they will in four or ffve. 



Mr. Duck. — My attention has frequently been called to the cultivation of the 

 walnut, and I am perfectly satisfied that, if it is properly cultivated, and in the proper 

 loctilities, it will gi*ow easily and rapidly. I find that in a very few years it will attain 

 considerable thickness. Even if the ground was kept for the express purpose of cultivat- 

 ing that tree it would be a paying crop. But if that plan were adopted, it would be 

 better, perhaps, to make a selection of the seed that would l>e adapted to a certain locality. 

 I know that if a walnut falls on the ground, and remains there all winter with a slight 

 covering, it will grow in the spi-ing without any attention at all if the fruit is perfect, 

 and I have no doubt if there was a bed ^jrepared for it, it would attain maturity and be 

 more jDerfect. 



Mr. Arnold. — I do not like the idea of the nuts lying three or four years in the 

 gi'ound. Last year we put a couple of bushels in the cellar, kept them moist, and now, I 

 should say, almost every nut has grown, and the trees are a foot high already. 



Mr. James Peck. — Did they freeze at all 1 



Mr. Arnold. — Some of them may have frozen. 



Mr. Peck. — I understand they would not germinate without freezing. 



Mr. President Dempsey. — Ours were frozen. 



