as these are facts, not fancies, and are not to be neglected if you would 

 have a walnut grove on a safe foundation. 



I have a record and also a photograph of one of the Santa Rosa walnut 

 trees grafted as I recommend on the black walnut in 1891. This was 

 handed to me by the owner, Mr. George C. Payne of San Jose. The record 

 may be of interest to you. Dimensions (1905): Spread of top, 66 feet; 

 circumference, one foot above ground, 8 feet, 9 inches; no record was kept 

 of the nuts until 1897, which amounted to 250 pounds. 



1898 302 pounds 



1899 229 pounds 



1900 600 pounds 



1901 237 pounds 



1902 478 pounds 



1903 380 pounds 



1 904 481 pounds 



1905 268 pounds 



The walnut tree has generally been considered a very difficult tree to 

 graft successfully. Mr. Payne, mentioned before, has perfected a method 

 of grafting the walnut which in his hands is without doubt the most suc- 

 cessful known. By it he is uniformly successful, often making 100 per 

 cent of the grafts to grow. Who can do better by any method? 



There are thousands of native black walnut trees in Northern and 

 Central California, in fields, pastures and roadsides, which if grafted to 

 the same, or some of the still further improved Santa Rosa walnuts, would 

 yield even larger and better crops than this tree is yielding. 



When you plant another tree why not plant a walnut, and then besides 

 sentiment, shade and leaves you may have a perennial supply of nuts, the 

 improved kinds of which furnish the most delicious, nutritious and health- 

 ful food which has ever been known. The old-fashioned hit or miss nuts 

 which we used to purchase at the grocery store were generally of a rich, 

 irregular mixture in form, size and color, with meats of varying degrees of 

 unsoundness, bitter, rancid, musty, but better yet with no meat at all. 

 From these early memories and the usual accompanying after effects nuts 

 have not been a very popular food for regular use until lately, when good 

 ones at a moderate price can generally, but not always, be purchased at all 

 first-class stores. 



The consumption of nuts is probably increasing among all civilized 

 nations to-day faster than that of any other food, and California should 

 keep up with this increasing demand, and make the increase still more 

 rapid by producing nuts of uniform good quality which can here be done 

 without extra effort, and with an Increase in the health and permanent 

 increase in the wealth of ourselves and neighbors. 



I have not mentioned other nuts, as your time and mine allows but a 

 glimpse at this one nut. The almond and pecan come next In importance, 

 followed by a score of others which will be extensively grown as their 

 culture is better understood. 



California has made most wonderful strides in the production of fruits 

 and nuts, and of almost everything else, but its newer horticultural possi- 

 bilities are even more grand, mostly unknown and undeveloped. Who 

 could have Imagined twenty-five years ago the important place which the 

 fig, the orange, the vine, and other fruits and nuts, as well as alfalfa, winter 

 vegetables, stock and poultry raising, now hold? And who can prophesy 

 the future place of California as the source of the choicest food products of 

 the world? 



