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France, and also in California. Successful attempts to grow 

 the English walnut have been made in many of the southern 

 states. Several trees are growing thriftily in West Virginia, 

 but so far as the writer knows, none have yielded profitable 

 crops. 



The Chestnut. The unusually large crop of chestnuts this 

 year encourages us to think that this nut is a profitable one 

 to grow in this section. The chestnut bark disease, now 

 spreading throughout the eastern states, is a discouraging fea- 

 ture in chestnut cu'ture. Many foreign varieties of chestnuts 





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rt.-= Chestnuts. &. Black Walnuts. c. Pecans. 



d. Brazil Nuts. . e. Almonds. /. Hickory Nuts. 



<j. Hazelnuts or Filberts. h. English Walnuts. 



are being successfully grafted on native stock to the advantage 

 of this branch of nut culture. 



The Black Walnut and Butternut. These common nuts are 

 still great favorites among the farm supplies of nut foods. The 

 walnut trees are rather rapid growers, and their culture is to 

 be encouraged, not only for the nuts they afford, but for the 

 valuable timber they produce. 



The Nut Industry. So important has become the culture 

 of nuts that we now have an National Nut Growers Associa- 

 tion publishing a monthly magazine, "The Nut Grower", and 



