CHAPTEE XXXYI. 



WALNUTS 



Are worthy of more attention, where there is a suitable 

 site for the proper setting of the bloom, and plenty of 

 room for the raising of such forest trees. The timber is 

 of course valuable ; and as the nuts are generally in 

 good demand, when young, for pickling, the cultivator 

 has more than two strings to his bow. 



This is a crop that is rarely troubled with diseases or 

 other pests, and when once the fruit is well set is pretty 

 certain to come safely to maturity. 



As the standard walnut tree does not bear paying 

 crops till at least five or six years after planting, the 

 grower should be a freeholder, or possess a long lease. 

 Dwarf French walnuts can be got to bear earlier, but 

 they do not often produce paying crops in this country. 



The experimenting young country fruit grower can 

 sow a few walnuts in shells, the best he can find, in early 

 spring, and in about twelve or fifteen years he will have 

 trees, if they have plenty of room, that will be regu- 

 larly producing good annual crops, without any expense 

 as to cultivation. But where space is limited the walnut 

 gives too much shade, to the injury of other plants, to 

 make it a welcome guest in any garden ground. 



