74 LUTHER BURBAXK 



Now the stock it retdy for ffraitmg. The 

 stock branehes sdeded for this purpose should 

 not be over two or three inches in diameter. The 

 cioni grow rapidly sod an orchard produced in 

 this way surpasses all others. Its trees have a 

 natural hiack walnut vigorous system of roots, 

 with undi:»turbcd tap root. A year's growth has 

 been saved by not transplanting, and a start 

 equivalent to the growth of several years has been 

 gained by using the faster-gro^• 1. 



So the English walnut gratui .in uus Hock 

 becomes a producino- tree at a very early age, and 

 an orchard of 1 : walnuts thus grafted is 



worth perhaps at least twice as much as one on its 

 own roots. 



The trr" •' -^ grafted has not only the advan- 

 tages mt i, but it is more wide-spreading 

 and therefore more productive than the original 

 tree; and the spread of limb is duplicated by the 

 root system, which thus insures a good supply of 

 nourishment and the capacity to produce large 

 crops even in dry seasons. 



We have seen that the hybrid walnuts of lioth 

 the Paradox and the Royal tj'pes have the pecul- 

 iarity of producing trees of quick growth and 

 gigantic stature in the first filial generation, and 

 a mixture of dwarfs and giants in the second 

 generation. 



