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Last September, Dr. W. C. Deming, secretary of the Northern 
Nutgrowers Association, gave a public lecture at the gis on 
this we and exhibited nuts grown on his ies t George- 
town, Con He is an expert and an enthusia: Sli | in 
this kind a faenine for many of our hilly districts a will gladly 
advise anyone how to make a beginning 
The walnut and pecan plantation of Mr. Littlepage, near Bowie, 
Maryland, was visited by the writer last October and he was 
shown a great collection of grafted pecans, English mare and. 
Stabler black walnuts, all of them too young as yet to bear fruit. 
Several forms of grafting and budding were employed, the an- 
the kernel comes out whole alchotieh it is ee uaa in ne 
native black walnut. Machines for cracking t tl 
in use and it may be that some day there will be central plants 
for taking over nuts = ———s them, as there are now central 
mills for sugar and c 
Walnut trees aa “ extensively planted: the native black 
walnut and the Stabler black walnut for timber, for fruit, and 
for grafting; and the Persian, or ‘‘English,’’ walnut for fruit, 
timber, shade, and ornamental purposes. The pecan is a very 
valuable nut tree for the southern states, but can hardly be 
recommended for states very far north of Virginia 
THE PERSIAN WALNUT 
The Persian walnut, Juglan SS originated in southern 
Europe by chance selection through several centuries from a wild 
tree which bore small nuts of very hicioe quality. The com 
mercial nuts were brought to England and called ‘‘walnuts,” 
meaning ‘‘foreign nuts,” and the name ‘English walnut” became 
current in America because they reached this country from 
This valuable tree now thrives in many parts of the world and 
its range is ever increasing. If plant breeders will only awake to 
