THE WALNUT — CnLTCRAL RANGE IN THE TJNITEB STATES. 



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According to the Assessors' ret^rns there were growing in 1896 the 

 louowmg number of walnut trees in the State, in the various counties: 



Marin , 75 



Mariposa 280 



Madera 71 



Mendocino .. 112 



Merced 933 



Modoc 56 



Monterey 478 



Napa li,350 



Nevada 3,000 



Orange 137,223 



Placer 1,685 



Riverside 7,803 



Sacramento .. 3,272 

 San Benito... 3,405 

 S'n Bernardi'o 11,500 

 San Diego.... 19,491 

 San Joaquin. 2,475 

 S'n L'ia Obispo 17,595 

 San Mateo... 400 

 Santa Barbara 21,010 

 Santa Clara .. 11,601 

 Santa Cruz... 4,580 

 Shasta 2,406 



Sierra :... 50 



Solano 2,979 



Sonoma 4,286 



Stanislaus 270 



Sutter 2,734 



Tehama 7,414 



Trinity 50 



Tulare 350 



Tuolumne 985 



Ventura 69,819 



Yuba 1,900 



Alameda 2,200 



Amador 250 



Butte 1 \^ 



Calaveras I."! '500 



S°^^sa 7 880 



Contra Costa. 4,650 



JU Dorado 1,125 



Fresno 2279 



Glenn '.'/. 12.000 



Jnyo ,... 390 



Kern 98i 



Los Angeles.. 140,675 



''^"tal" - -V "525,753 



. . Note.— The Assessor of Lake County returns the following figures, which are not in 

 tne above list, viz.: Under one year, 10,083 ; under two years, 351 ; under three years, 32 ; 

 under four years, 308. j > > j > . > 



The walnut is generally planted at from 40 to 50 feet apart, and as 

 an average 40 feet would be safe to calculate the acreage of the State. 

 Therefore, allowing twenty-seven trees to the acre, at 40 feet apart, we 

 have in the State 19,472 acres in 1896, as per Assessors' returns, of which 

 8,814 acres are in bearing, and 10,658 acres are non-bearing. 



VALUATION OF WALNUT OECHAEDS. 



As indicating the value of a walnut orchard (irrespective of the land 

 or location), the following schedule of valuations, fixed by a convention 

 of Assessors of the southern counties in 1891, is appended: 



ItoSyears planted $5 00peracre. 



4 years planted 10 00 per acre. 



5 years. planted 15 00 per acre. 



6 years planted . 20 00 per acre. 



15 years planted 100 00 per acre. 



(15) CULTURAL RANGE OF THE WALNUT {Juglans Regia) IN 

 THE UNITED STATES. 



According to " Nut Culture in the United States," the cultural range 

 of the walnut in the United States is mostly confined to the Pacific 

 Coast, and California in particular. *" East of the Rocky Mountains 

 the Persian walnut has been most successful in a limited area along the 

 Atlantic slope, from New York southward through New Jersey, south- 

 western Pennsylvaia, central Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. 

 The tree endures the winters in favored localities near the coast as far 

 north as Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, but has never 

 been planted there except in very small way. Some very fine old trees 

 are reported from Rochester, N. Y., where they are in old gardens in the 

 suburbs of the city. The finest and most fruitful specimens reported 

 are at Fordham, N. Y., Princeton, N, J., Germantown and Philadelphia, 

 Pa., and Georgetown, D. C, some of these being a hundred years old 

 and bearing large crops of nuts of fair quality." 



*"Kut Culture in the United States." Special Report, Department of Agriculture, 

 1896, p. 29. 



