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reach the ovipositor. I have never been able to see them do it, 

 but in some way I think the eggs must be inserted by this 

 method. 



The demand for the Paragon nut has come from all over the 

 United States, and it was necessary to start a nursery. Mr. 

 Sober, with the cleanliness he practices, will keep this going in 

 spite of the blight. He put away last fall three hundred 

 bushels of nuts, burying them, and now a little later they will 

 begin to sprout. When they are sprouted, in beds of sand, 

 they are taken out and planted. The method is before the nuts 

 are planted, to pinch the large tap roots off at this point, so 

 that a fibrous root is started. Otherwise this (indicating) is 

 what you get, and it is hard to transplant that tree and have it 

 live. To pinch off that root, or to put it in horizontal position, 

 will develop fibrous roots. This one was not pinched off, but 

 was planted with the tap root in a horizontal position, and you 

 see the result. This nut (another view). was planted and al- 

 lowed to develop for itself; and you see the difference between 

 the two. 



The nuts are planted in rows, and here you see them after 

 the first summer's growth in the nursery. 



Here they are, two years old, ready to be grafted. Some of 

 the seedlings bear the second year and third year, but tHey arc 

 not true Paragon. Some of them may be better. Last year 

 fifty seedlings, two and three years old, had nuts on them. 



This view shows men engaged in grafting these seedlings with 

 the Paragon. This gives an idea of the size of one nursery. 



This view shows one season's growth after grafting on the 

 seedling. You see it is nearly five feet high, one season of 

 growth, grafted on a seedling two years old. It is then trimmed 

 back, of course. 



There is one grafted one year, bearing a nut at that point and 

 two nuts at that point, and still others here. They are grafted. 



Large trees can be transplanted, but not successfully. It is 

 very hard to get a tree that is five or six years old to stand trans- 

 planting. It does not pay to transplant the larger trees. Oc- 

 casionally they will live, but the others soon grow and catch up 

 with them. 



