THE CREATION OF NEW TREES 



worth five dollars a cord — isn't the money 

 well invested ? Isn't it better to pay fifty 

 cents for such a tree and get such results than 

 to get another tree for nothing which in ten 

 years will produce one cord ? Suppose a man 

 has a fine rich walnut or other nut which will 

 produce ten times as many nuts when grafted 

 upon a faster growing tree as it will pro- 

 duce upon its own roots — doesn't it pay to 

 graft it? 



"In considering the development of new 

 kinds of trees and in improving old ones, it 

 must always be borne in mind that no two 

 trees are alike. Two trees may start out, for 

 example, upon apparently precisely the same 

 conditions, but one will grow a foot while the 

 other is growing an inch. Oftentimes among 

 a lot of seedlings one will grow from a hundred 

 to five hundred times as much in a season as 

 its comrade raised from precisely the same kind 

 of seed. This fast-growing one is the one to 

 choose, and by selection it may be developed 

 still more until, as in the case of the walnut I 

 have bred, it stands at the head of all trees in 

 the temperate zones for rapidity of growth. 

 Both this fast-growing seedling and its slower 



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