8 BLTLLETIN" 933, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 



New York. — Although the entire State of New York lies within 

 the botanical range of black walnut, there are only a few places 

 where the species exists plentifully. Sullivan and Orange Counties, 

 in the southeastern part of the State, contain commercial amounts; 

 but on the west bank of the Hudson, above Newburgh, and from the 

 Hudson eastward as far as, but not including, Long Island, it is very 

 scattered. In the Genessee Valley, especially in Livingston County, 

 walnut is found in amounts sufficiently large to warrant commercial 

 exploitation if the demands were similar to those of war time. 



New Jersey. — Walnut is plentiful in the western part of New 

 Jersey, especially in Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon, and Cumberland 

 Counties, being, of course, most abundant and of the best quality on 

 the better soils. On the sandy soils farther east its growth is slower 

 and its quality inferior, although large trees are frequently found. 



Pennsylvania. — In the northern and central parts of Pennsylvania 

 walnut is very rare. West and southwest of this region of scarcity 

 lies a belt in which walnut is somewhat common on the good soils of 

 the valleys, but is lacking in the mountains. The southwestern and 

 southeastern parts of the State contain stands of walnut scattered 

 very generally throughout the hardwood forests, particularly in the 

 larger valleys. 



SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES. 



Maryland. — Valuable stands are found only in the western part of 

 Maryland. The infertile red clays prevailing farther east and the 

 sands of the coast belt are not favorable to a good development of 

 walnut. 



Delaware. — Only the northernmost portion of Delaware contains 

 native walnut of high quality. 



Virginia. — The Shenandoah Valley remains the best walnut region 

 of Virginia, although the abundance of walnut there has been 

 greatly reduced. Commercial quantities are still to be found 

 throughout the whole length of the valley, as well as in the coves and 

 viilleys on both sides of the mountains. On the east slope of the 

 Blue Ridge a considerable amount of walnut is found in small, 

 fertile mountain valleys. To a lesser extent it grows on the slopes 

 of these small valleys but is of inferior quality. In the Piedmont 

 region the river valleys contain considerable walnut, the Potomac 

 and Rappahannock basins contain the most, and the York and James 

 somewhat less. South of this region walnut is scarce, and is found 

 in carload lots only in the broadest of the bottom lands, the poor 

 red soils of the uplands being unfavorable to its development. On 

 the coastal plain of Virginia walnut is rare. 



