OUR NUT TREES 



Bosnia, the Balkan peninsula and eastward through 

 Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Persia to Afghanistan and 

 on the Himalayas of Kashmir, and northward to near 

 Bokhara and Ladak. From western Asia it was 

 long, long ago carried to China where it is abun- 

 dantly cultivated throughout the cooler parts of that 

 land and here and there naturalized. From China 

 it has been taken to south Manchuria and Korea, 

 where it is abundant, and to Japan where it is only 

 sparingly cultivated. Also, it is much cultivated 

 throughout the temperate region of the Himalayas. 

 It is grown in quantity in all but the coldest countries 

 of Europe, likewise in this country, and especially 

 in California. In the temperate regions of the 

 Southern Hemisphere it is also grown. No other 

 northern nut-tree has been so widely planted, and no 

 other nut is so much appreciated as an article of food 

 in temperate lands. It is one of the very few exotic 

 economic trees cultivated in the Orient where its nut 

 is vastly esteemed. An important desideratum is a 

 type of this Walnut which would be perfectly hardy 

 in northern New England. A few trees are known 

 around Boston, Mass., and a few miles to the north- 

 ward, but properly speaking the tree is not hardy 

 here. From the colder parts of western China I 

 sent seeds in the hope of securing a perfectly hardy 

 type, but I am not sanguine. The resultant trees 



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