PREFACE 



HIS treatise is based upon the experience 

 of twenty years, in walnut culture, in 

 the Sierras, elevation nearly three 

 thousand feet,- at Westpoint, Calave- 

 ras County, California. Had we pos- 

 sessed at the beginning of our work 

 with the walnut the information to be 

 obtained in this text-book, we could 

 have accomplished more in eight 

 years than we have in the twenty. That others 

 who wish to engage in growing walnuts, may profit 

 by our experience and thereby save years of valu- 

 able time and labor, is our reason for offering to the 

 public this volume. The walnut industry in our 

 country has only begun.. With proper stock treated 

 on scientific lines, it in time would respond in every 

 state of the Union. When a variety of the Persian 

 walnut will bloom the first of June and ripen a fine 

 flavored nut in the early fall, we have only to get 

 hardy stock and that walnut can soon be grown 

 from the state of Washington to Maine. 



Suppose the highways of the nation roads and 

 railroads were bordered by rows of stately walnut 



