WALNUT 



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worth millions of dollars to the walnut 

 growers of California. 



Black Walnut 



The black walnut grows a nut that is 

 rich, oily and much prized by some per- 

 sons, but the shell is thick and hard, and 

 the nut does not sell in the market as 

 well as the English walnut. It has a 

 much higher northern range than the 

 English walnut. 



Butternut 



The butternut, Juglans cinerea, some- 

 times called the white walnut, has an 

 oily nut, with a hard, elongated tuber- 

 cled shell. It is not grown largely for 

 commercial purposes. 



Butternut Grown in Yakima Valley, Wash. 



English Walnuts in Washington 



Walnuts can doubtless be grown in fav- 

 ored localities in Eastern Washington. 



Mr. W. P. Shepard, of Chelan, Wash- 

 ington, says: "I became acquainted with 

 the walnut industry here 10 years ago 

 with a small orchard of about 100 trees 

 of walnuts from grocery stock, planted 

 about 10 years before as an experiment. 

 These being seedlings, varied widely in 

 fruit and character, but came into bear- 

 ing at the ages of five, six and seven 

 years from the seed, and have borne reg- 

 ular crops every year since that time. 

 Some of the trees are now 30 feet in 

 spread and most of the walnuts are of 

 excellent quality, identical with some of 

 the most tender varieties grown in 



America. Doubtless the influence of the 

 deep water of the lake, which never 

 freezes, accounts for the fact that the 

 walnuts can be grown in this latitude. 

 There are now several young bearing or- 

 chards about the lake." 



A letter from Mr. Heartgood, also of 

 Chelan, says: "I have 150 trees 14 years 

 old and they have been bearing every 

 year since they came into the bearing 

 period." 



Mr. A. A. Quarnberg, horticulturist and 

 nut specialist, Vancouver, Washington, 

 says: "Generally speaking, I do not con- 

 sider walnut-growing a success east of 

 the Cascade mountains. That is not say- 

 ing that walnuts cannot grow there, as 

 there may be limited areas fairly situ- 

 ated where they would succeed. Neither 

 do walnuts succeed everywhere west of 

 the Cascades. 



"The location for walnut groves must 

 be carefully selected or failure, partial 

 or complete, will be the result. In the 

 Yakima valley I would try the hardier 

 varieties, such as the Rush, Pomeroy, 

 etc., rather than the delicate varieties 

 that are grown west of the range. As 

 horticultural inspector I spent more or 

 less of four years' time in the Klickitat 

 country. On the lower elevations with 

 good soil and exposure I found some 

 good-looking walnut trees; in the west- 

 ern portion of the country and one place 

 in the eastern part, which was protected 

 from the cold and winds, I found a few 

 very fine-looking walnut trees, while in 

 the exposed sections of the same neigh- 

 borhood they were not successful. 



"It is claimed that the first English 

 walnut tree in the state of Washington 

 grew in Vancouver. Mr. Gay Hayden, 

 in 1853 or 1854, secured some nuts from 

 a ship anchored in the harbor and plant- 

 ed them in his yard in Vancouver. There 

 are now between five and six hundred 

 acres of English walnuts planted in 

 Clarke county, Washington. 



"The walnut requires a deep soil with 

 plenty of moisture. In its native state 

 it generally grows in a rich alluvial soil 

 and succeeds best where the conditions 



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