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of these have ever been cultivated in our Eastern 

 States, consequently little is known of their value 

 here ; but more may be in the near future, when oii» 

 horticulturists and farmers begin to plant nut trees as 

 freely as they have other kinds, or are awakened to the 

 fact that such trees can be made a source of pleasure 

 and profit. 



Here in the Northern States our main dependence 

 for hardy and productive trees of this species will be 

 upon seedlings or cions from those acclimated specimens 

 which have already been thoroughly tested and found to 

 be both hardy and prolific. There are plenty of these, 

 as I have stated elsewhere, and they are well worthy of 

 attention and multiplication until something better is 

 produced or discovered. In the meantime, the most 

 promising European varieties could be imported and 

 tested, although it is not probable that those originating 

 in southern France and Italy would be of much value 

 for planting in the latitude of New York city or north 

 of it, but south of this line the chances of success 

 would be somewhat greater ; and to escape injury from 

 late spring frosts, the more elevated regions are prefer- 

 able to the lower and warmer anywhere in the Southern 

 States. In anticipation of the question being asked, I 

 will say that, at present, I do not know of any nursery- 

 man in the Eastern States who propagates or imports 

 named varieties of walnuts for sale. Of course, seed- 

 lings of these are offered, but it is well known that there 

 is but a remote chance of these coming true from seed. 

 Even the little dwarf French walnut Prasparturiens, or 

 Early Prolific, cannot be depended upon to produce 

 dwarf or early bearing trees beyond the first generation 

 from the nut, and these must be the product of grafted 

 trees, to insure this much. The following list contains 

 the names of only a few of the most noted varieties, the 

 greater jDart having originated in Europe. 

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