THE WALNUT 



root system, means permanent injury. All of the 

 small rootlets which contain the microscopic mouths 

 that drink sustenance for the tree are destroyed ; 

 and the tree must grow other rootlets before growth 

 in the stock can be renewed. 



Pruning 



It is not the custom of nut growers to prune the 

 walnut tree to any great extent. However, our ex- 

 perience has proven that it can be improved by 

 careful priming. Give to it as to any other tree, a 

 shapely appearance by proper pruning. If the tree 

 be permitted to grow two or three large branches 

 they are liable to split apart sometime when loaded 

 with nuts, and the tree destroyed or its beauty 

 effectually marred. 



Make the young tree grow in one strong central 

 branch with well balanced limbs growing strong 

 and upward. If trees are to be cultivated you want 

 room beneath the branches. When bearing a heavy 

 nut crop branches bend beneath the weight: hence, 

 great care should be taken in properly training the 

 lower limbs. Cut back the limbs to fifteen or eight- 

 een inches before the sap flow in early springtime, 

 cutting beyond an upper bud. Cutting back makes 



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