Hints on the Planting, Cultivating and Propa- 
gating of the Walnut. 
Whatever niny be the size of the trees to be planted, large and deep holes should 
be dug, say four feet in diameter, and from two to three feet in depth. 
Never cut a walnut back, if you can help it; and if the trees are tall and slender 
aud rather exposed to winds, a stake should be planted with the tree, to which it 
should be tied, but far enough from the stake to avoid chafing. 
Walnuts stand pruning as well as any other class of trees, but seldom reqnire 
it. But whenever the body of a young walnut is injured in any manner, and a 
strong shoot is growing from below the ground, cnt back the tree down to where 
I 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 Proiparturiens 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, or in cordons around large fields, orchards and vineyards, than orchard-like. 
The walnut must not be pruned at all; only dead wood, or branches in each 
other's way, being taken oft'; 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 
trees 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 dread 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 barren land, and bear 
quicker and larger crops. 
Iu planting nuts of any kind, always plant the suture or seam perpendicular to 
the horizon, that is up and down, and never the small end down; planted that way 
the nuts will sprout better, and the tree have a straight body. 
Eemeuiber that there is no "overstocked " or "glutted" market, no necessity 
for organizing "co-operative associations "to hunt up a market for nnts of all 
kinds; so go to work and plant nut trees. 
