THE WALNUT 



a custom would eventually yield. We have been the 

 greatest vandals in the destruction of the finest and 

 most valuable forests the earth has produced. We 

 have sown to the winds and unless we soon check 

 the waste and begin a sensible, practical system of 

 'reforesting, we shall ere long reap the whirlwind. 



We may learn a useful lesson from a study of 

 other lands. China, is a field for thought. Pales- 

 tine once a land of milk and honey- but when 

 her forests disappeared, became a desert waste. 



The walnut lives and bears nuts for centuries. 



A tree estimated to be one thousand years old 

 in the Crimea near Balaklava bears annually from 

 eighty to one hundred thousand nuts ; two thou- 

 sand Ibs. or more. The estimate in Ibs. being based 

 on the weight of nuts in California orchards. 



Information given by an Italian neighbor, that 

 in his native village in Italy is a walnut tree over 

 six hundred years old, which bears a bounteous nut 

 crop annually. 



An English walnut tree on the Morris Estate on 

 Manhattan Island bore choice nuts for more than a 

 century. Washington made his headquarters at the 

 Morris mansion after his escape from the British on 

 Long Island and doubtless ate of the nuts from that 

 tree. 



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