JUGLANS CALIFORNICA, WATSON 



Thirty scions were set into the branches of the 

 tree, twenty-five of them growing and making the 

 top as shown within the period of time given., This 

 tree is in the orchard of the writer, at AVestpoint, 

 Calaveras County, California. 



If nuts are taken from trees growing in the cold- 

 est sections, either of elevation or greatest latitude 

 where it is grown, and planted thruout the Eastern 

 States, we believe this species would soon become 

 acclimated to our coldest sections, and in time grown 

 anywhere thruout the United States. We had very 

 little difficulty in getting good results in grafting 

 the Franquette. Mayette and Calavette varieties into 

 the California black at an elevation of three thou- 

 sand feet in the Sierras. True, some of the limbs 

 froze back some four or five inches at the ends the 

 first winter. But an early severe pruning taking 

 out all the frosted wood, restored the grafts and the 

 growth the second year was truly phenomenal. The 

 yearly growth has not since been injured; altho the 

 winter of 1909 and '10, was the coldest California has 

 experienced for many years. The reason the tender 

 Persian varieties are so readily acclimated is in the 

 vigor of the California stock. The fluids coursing 

 upward thru the cells of the tree partake of this 

 vitality, and the new growth is soon enabled to over- 

 come every obstacle. 



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