THE CREATION OF NEW TREES 
worth five dollars a cord—isn’t the money 
well invested? Isn't it better to pay fifty 
cents for such a tree and get such results than 
to get another tree for nothing which in ten 
years will produce one cord? Suppose a man 
has a fine rich walnut or other nut which will 
produce ten times as many nuts when grafted 
upon a faster growing tree as it will pro- 
duce upon its own roots—doesn’t it pay to 
graft it? 
“In considering the development of new 
kinds of trees.and in improving old ones, it 
must always be borne in mind that no two 
trees are alike. Two trees may start out, for 
example, upon apparently precisely the same 
conditions, but one will grow a foot while the 
other is growing an inch. Oftentimes among 
a lot of seedlings one will grow from a hundred 
to five hundred times as much in a season as 
its comrade raised from precisely the same kind 
of seed. This fast-growing one is the one to 
choose, and by selection it may be developed 
still more until, as in the case of the walnut I 
have bred, it stands at the head of all trees in 
the temperate zones for rapidity of growth. 
Both this fast-growing seedling and its slower 
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