The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Japan Walnut 
On page 329 C. W. asks for informa¬ 
tion in relation to the Japan walnut. 
Twenty-nine years ago this Spring I 
planted a few imported nuts. These came 
from Japan, and I never saw as nice nuts 
grown here. The young trees were thrifty in 
growth, and made nice shade trees, yield¬ 
ing abundantly of medium-sized smooth 
nuts, grown in clusters of six to a dozen 
or more, and in flavor were superior to 
the common butternut. No two trees 
grew nuts alike, nor were there any equal 
to the imported ones. Those nuts when 
planted sported back to the butternut 
type, viz., a rough type of shell, and va¬ 
ried very much in value, some trees being 
very prolific with a better-eating quality 
of fruit. If trees could be bought bud¬ 
ded from the trees that bore the imported 
nuts they would add quite a little to the 
food supply of the East. But I do not 
believe it would pay anyone to plant 
seedlings in a commercial way. 
Some of the sports were better than 
the butternut in early bearing, product¬ 
iveness and quality of fruit, with thinner 
shells, with some not equal to the butter¬ 
nut. I see no chance for anyone to en¬ 
gage in nut-growing in the East until 
they are able to buy budded trees suitable 
to the locality. Personally I would like 
a few of such trees for my own planting. 
When the States and the United State 
Government are spending so much to help 
the poor farmers, it is a pity that sub¬ 
jects like this and the improvement of 
fruits could not be taken up and carried 
on in a way to help all the people, for 
much could be done in making a cheaper 
living cost to the working classes, besides 
adding much to the enjoyment of all. The 
most common nut in the East, the chest¬ 
nut, is fast disappearing, and I know of 
no tree that can take its place. The 
Japan walnut would be hardy a little 
farther north, and if the trees could be 
obtained, produce thousands of bushels 
of nuts on land which now is of little 
value. H. O. MEAD. 
Massachusetts. 
Pruning Peach Trees 
Would you give specific information 
concerning pruning peach trees? Our 
trees are the natural fruit, rich yellow 
meat about an inch deep, called in this 
locality Gold Drop. T believe the name is 
local. A. I*. 
Alexandria, O. 
As soon as planted, young peach trees 
should have their central stems cut back 
to the height of but 18 to 24 in. from the 
ground. If there be side branches these 
should be shortened back to one. two or 
three buds. Such pruning will favor de¬ 
velopment of low, symmetrical heads—a 
desirable feature of peach trees. The 
leading shoots of each succeeding season’s 
growth should be shortened back from 
one-third to one-half their length. The 
fruit of peach trees is borne on wood of 
the preceding season's growth, and it is 
desirable that this one-yeav-ohl bearing 
wood be maintained as low down as is 
practically possible. The natural ten¬ 
dency of the peach tree is to push its 
growth rapidly upward and outward to 
an excessive height and length and, aside 
from the peaches thus being made hard 
to reach in harvesting, the weight of the 
fruit at the extremities of such long 
branches is much more likely to break the 
trees. 
Even by annually shortening the lead¬ 
ing branches by pruning, the bearing wood 
in time will become difficult to reach. The 
trees, at this stage, may be “renewed” by 
cutting the main branches back into the 
old wood—to within a few feet of the 
point of their divergence from the body of 
the trees. This renewal pruning should 
be in early Spring of a season in which 
.the fruit buds are known to have been de¬ 
stroyed by severe cold of Winter. Treated 
in this way, provided the trees yet pos¬ 
sess a fair degree of vigor, fine new tops 
may be reproduced low down where the 
operations of pruning, spraying, thinning 
and harvesting may be accomplished with 
the minimum expenditure of material, 
time and labor. The pruning of renewed 
heads should be the same as recommended 
for the original ones. As peach trees in¬ 
crease in height and breadth their more 
slender, twiggy growths within the heads 
ot the trees lose vigoy. decline and die. J 
For the sake of neatness, these dead 
growths may be clipped out with the 
primers. F. it. baixou. 
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