The shell was unusually thin and Mr. 

 Pomeroy was astonished, for he never 

 believed the English Walnut grew in the 

 East. 



Knowing the varieties grown in Cali- 

 fornia could not be raised in the East or 

 North, he questioned his landlord and 

 found that this particular tree had been 

 brought from Northern Europe. Mr. 

 Pomeroy determined at once that possibly 

 this variety would be hardy enough for 

 cultivation in New York State. He pro- 

 cured some of the nuts and put them in 

 his satchel which he entrusted to a 

 neighbor who was about to start home. 

 The neighbor reached home all right and 

 so did the nuts but the neighbor's 

 children found the rare delicacies and ate 

 all but seven. They would doubtless 

 have eaten these too but fortunately they 

 had slipped into the lining of the satchel 

 where Mr. Pomeroy found them on his 

 return to Lockport. These seven nuts, 

 which had so narrow an escape from ob- 

 livion, are now seven beautiful English 

 Walnut trees, sixty or more feet high and 



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