Hints on the Planting, Cultivating and Propa- 
gating of the Walnut. 
WUiitever may be the size ..f the trees to be phuitetl, large aud deep holes should 
be dug, say four teet in diameter, and from two to three feet in depth. 
Never init a wahuit back, if you can help it; and if the trees are tall and 
slender and rather exposed to winds, 8 stake should be planted with the tree, t,. 
which it should be tied, b,it far enough from the stake to avoid chafing. , 
Walnnts stand pruning as well as any other class of trees, but seldom require 
it. But whenever the body of a young walnut is injured in any manner, and a 
strong shoot is growing from l,elow the ground, cut back the tree down to 
where that shoot starts. 
No walnut trees ought to be allowed to branch out before having attained a 
height of seven to eight feet; and no Prcpparturiens allowed to go to fruit before 
Having grown to such a standard size. 
The walnut does better when planted avenue-like, or alongside fences and 
roads .,r in cordons around large fields, ai-chards and vineyards, than orchard- 
like. 
The walnut must not be pruned at all; only dead wood, or branches in each 
otlier's way, being taken ofif; also branches spreading out too much. 
What should encourage the planting of walnut trees, and be a strong induce- 
ment for the raising of that valuable and so well marketable nut, is that very 
few frees are so little particular on the nature of the soil, as the walnut is; for it 
thrives in any kind of soil and at any exposure; it does not gtead drought or 
moisture, unless either be in excess; of course, the walnut will grow much more 
rapidly in good and rich soil with plenty of moisture, than on poor and hanen 
land, and hear quicker and larger crops. 
In planting nuts of any kind, always plant the stitnre or seam pei-peudicular 
to the horizon, that is up and down, and never the small end down; planted that 
way the nuts will sprout better, au.l the tree have a straight body. 
Kemember that there is no "overstocked " or "ghitted" market, no necessity 
for organizing co-operative associations " to hunt up a market for nuts of all 
kinds; so go to work and plant nut trees. 
