.steak,' Secondly, its superior worth as 

 an brnamental shade tree is admitted by 

 everyone who knows the first thing about 

 trees. For this purpose there is nothing 

 more beautiful. With their wide-spread- 

 ing branches and dark-green foliage, they 

 are a delight to the eye. Unlike the 

 leaves of some of our shade trees, those 

 of this variety do not drop during the 

 Summer but adhere until late in the Fall, 

 thus making an unusually clean tree for 

 lawn or garden. In addition to all this, 

 the walnut is particularly free from scale 

 and other pests. 



Up to the present time, the English 

 Walnut has been more largely in demand 

 as a shade tree than as a commercial 

 proposition; in fact, so little attention 

 has been given to the nuts themselves 

 that there are, comparatively speaking, 

 few large producing orchards in the 

 United States, the greater portion of the 

 total yield of walnuts being procured 

 from scattered field and roadside trees. 

 It is a little difficult to understand why 

 they should have been so neglected when 



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