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THE MATTER OE LOCAI, LIMITATIONS. It has not been many years since 

 the successful growing of the Orange, and even the Grape, was supposed to be 

 confined to the immediate vicinity of Los Angeles, and even the successful 

 raising of the French Prune was supposed to be confined to a somewhat 

 limited area in Santa Clara valley. So I predict it will be with the Walnut, 

 and that the area for the successful raising of the same is altogether beyond 

 the bounds of my most enthusiastic imagination. I do not believe in advoca- 

 ting that this or that particular county is one of the best, if not the very best, 

 locations for growing Oranges, Prunes, Walnuts, etc. Go to work and plant 

 what you believe will be a success in your locality, and then let the Rip Van 

 Winkles come along and wake up with astonishment when they see what you 

 have been doing when they were in their lethargic sleep. 



RECENT LESSONS. The past season I have learned something about Wal- 

 nut growing that I consider worth a great deal to me, and I think it will be of 

 inestimable value to those who contemplate putting out Walnut trees in the 

 future, especially in the northern counties of this State, as well as in Oregon t 

 Washington and Nevada. Last season, on the night of April iSth, my Prune 

 crop was entirely destroyed when the Prunes were about three-eighths of an 

 inch in diameter. On examining them the next morning I was completely 

 surprised to find them frozen, something that never happened here before to 

 my knowledge. My Walnut trees, with the exception of three, were in full 

 leaf at this time, but the freeze not only destroyed the foliage entirely, but the 

 ends of the young shoots that were making a very rapid growth. The sight 

 of these large trees, with their foliage as black as though they had been swept 

 by a severe fire, I, must confess was really discouraging, as well as distressing, 

 to me, and I mercifully desisted from looking at them as much as possible. It 

 was a number of -weeks before the new foliage started, and more than a month 

 before the trees assumed anywhere near the condition that they were in before 

 the fatal freeze. However, these trees bore a small crop of nuts very much 

 more than I expected. 



LATE GROWING WALNUTS. But one sight gladdened my eyes. On care- 

 fully examining the three other trees I found that not even a single bud had 

 started. Two of them commenced to bud May 3d and the other some weeks 

 later, if I remember rightly. I regret very much that I lost my memoranda .as 

 to the extreme late date of the budding of this tree, which, however, was too 

 young to bear. One of these three trees that I have mentioned made a won- 

 derful growth of foliage in a short time, and escaped the many severe frosts 

 that followed the fatal freeze of April i8th, and produced over two hundred 

 nuts, which are as large as, if not larger than, any other variety I raise. This 

 variety of tree, bearing such large soft-shelled nuts, I consider very valuable in 

 connection with its extreme lateness in bearing, and, if I were a young man, 



