OREGON WALNUTS 



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hardy French strain, 

 such as the Franquette, 

 that one can expect to 

 secure good seedling 

 stock. 



Where grafted trees 

 are preferred, one 

 should certainly know 

 something about the 

 pedigree of the trees, 

 for unless the roots are 

 vigorous and the scions 

 selected from trees of 

 known value, the graft- 

 ed trees will probably 

 be worthless. 



Some men are com- 

 b i n i n g seedling and 

 grafted orchards in this 

 way. Seedling orchards 

 are first planted and 

 then the percentage 

 which are inferior are 

 grafted over to selected 

 scions. Many of these 

 trees in this way can be 

 made to become very 

 productive trees, but 

 with others the vitality 

 is so poor that it does 

 not pay to attempt to 



do much with them. Eventually we are going to find out what 

 are the four or five best varieties or strains for this section of 

 the country, and as soon as that is determined, a large majority 

 of our trees will be grafted to these best strains. 



There are three types of stock being used in the Northwest 



Nuts at top and bottom are result of seedlings 

 from grafting of pointed Franquette and 

 Round Mayette in center. 



