As an illustration of the hardiness 

 of the English Walnut, there is a tree 

 at Red Hill, Virginia, which was brought 

 from Edinburgh, Scotland, when Examples of 

 six months old, planted in New 

 York, where it remained three 

 years, then removed to Staunton, Vir- 

 ginia, and after two years taken to 

 Red Hill. In consequence of so many 

 changes, the tree at first died back, but 

 is now thrifty twenty feet high; trunk, 

 eight inches in diameter at the ground. 



During several severe Winters, the 

 thermometer fell so low that some peach 

 trees and grape vines growing near Eng- 

 lish Walnuts on the Pomeroy farm near 

 Lockport, N. Y. were killed, while the 

 nut trees were not in the least injured. 



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