FOREWORD TO VOLUME XI 



Mr. Burbank begins this, his eleventh volume, 

 with a chapter, which, to the majority of readers, 

 must be novel, describing, as it does, the business 

 side of raising nut crops. He continues throughout 

 the range of profitable nuts, discussing the paper- 

 shell and other walnuts, the almond, the chestnut, 

 the hickory and a miscellaneous company of other 

 nuts with many definite suggestions for improve- 

 ment. 



He tells, also, in this volume, the method 

 employed to produce in twelve years a walnut 

 tree such as nature takes seventy years to produce; 

 he gives his ideas on how reforestration may be 

 accomplished profitably; he describes each class 

 of tree which yields us gums and syrups, and con- 

 cludes with a practical chapter on trees and shrubs 

 for shade and ornamentation, together with a 

 number of new tree experiments which offer 

 encouragement. 



THE EDITORS. 



