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most of them including the largest, to make room for some building ; one of 

 those remaining in 1881 measured three feet six inches in circumference six feet 

 from the ground, and was upwards of forty feet high. Mr. Dougall also says, 

 " Had the nuts been planted where the trees were to stand, and had they not 

 been injured by buildings so near them, they would probably have been much 

 larger." 



Lindsay, March, 18^4. Thos. Beall. 



CANADIAN WALNUT GROWING. 



AM pleased to see by your March No. that our old and 

 much respected friend Mr. T. Beall, of Lindsay, is stiil 

 fond of discoursing upon his most favorite topic " The 

 Canadian Black Walnut," and frequently with much 

 acceptance. It is most certainly a very fruitful theme, 

 and one is scarcely able to express all its rich treasures 

 of pleasure and profit in a single lifetime. Although 

 in many times and seasons in the past we have been 

 deeply stirred and liberally instructed by his sage and 

 mature discoveries in this and other lines, yet it is 

 somewhat surprising now in this eminently " advanced 

 age " to realize some of the statements and conclusions that his well-ripened 

 wisdom heedlessly brings him to amid the profound blazing light of this present 

 time. Allow me. Sir, to example as a key to my meaning a few of the state- 

 ments of this paper of Mr. Beall's upon " The Black Walnut Tree for Lumber," 

 as given in the said No. of the Canadian Horticulturist. 



After speaking of the advantages and needs to us as a people of timber 

 planting, and enumerating some of the good points of the Black Walnut for 

 these purposes, the writer goes ©n to say on page 96, " With regard to propaga- 

 tion and culture," that these are to be done especially for three important pur- 

 poses, namely, "for shelter, for ornament, and for profit." This by itself being 

 rather a queer annunciation when you come to take in the situation properly, 

 viz., thnber grooving for lumber. 



Again, with regard to Walnut tree propagation, he advises ''that it is of the 

 utmost importance that the nuts be planted where the trees are to grow," and 

 then goes on to prescribe that holes be made in the ground with a sharp pointed 

 stick, and the nuts be forced down into them with the other end, and lastly 

 that the holes are to be filled in with the soil, etc. This last stroke of advice 

 reminds me very forcibly of the statements of a gentleman of my recent 

 acquaintance near the city of Guelph, who, being very anxious to establish a 

 young forest on one of his new stumpy fields on the back of the lot, made an 

 effort thereto. For this purpose he went to the highways and open fields, and 



