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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March i, 1924 
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Nut Culture in the North 
Part I 
Eastern Nut Culture. —In looking 
over the history of the black walnut we 
find the nut is a carrier of a very highly 
flavored kernel within a hard shell, the 
kernel so hard to extract that few peo¬ 
ple would care to crack walnuts for a 
living; therefore tve find only a small 
amount of black walnuts used, and few 
people planting it, because it grows too 
slowly for our rapid American pace, in 
spite of the fact that the lumber is an 
invaluable asset. The English walnut, 
sometimes called the Persian walnut, and 
now believed to have come from China, 
is grown quite extensively in California, 
but because they so often freeze back 
in the Winter nearly everybody believes 
they cannot be grown commercially in 
the Eastern States. We find there are 
about 2,000 trees in Pennsylvania alone, 
many bearing fine crops of nuts. In New 
Jersey many trees of high-bearing records 
are reported, some yielding as much as 
eight bushels. In New York many trees 
and several groves are doing well. The 
Japan walnut is a very rapid grower, 
and because most nurseries have failed 
to propagate the improved varieties of 
English and black walnuts they sell these 
trees as something the planter will be 
proud of. Many times these trees ar ? 
sold under the name of English walnuts. 
In itself it is very common, but the heart 
nut, a sport of the Japan family, is a 
very rapid grower, bears early, and is a 
nut of excellent quality, flavor resembling 
the butternut (white walnut). Because 
this nut is very hard to propagate, even 
by the best propagators, it is a rare tree. 
Black Walnuts. —Through the ef¬ 
forts of a band of experimenters in nut 
culture, black walnut trees of special 
merit have been selected and today we 
have a collection of varieties of great 
value. The Thomas originated in East¬ 
ern Pennsylvania and is noted for its ex¬ 
ceptionally rapid growth and large nut. 
One man near West Chester, Pa., believes 
he would have had over a peck from a 
three-year tree, but the storm caught it 
and being so overloaded at so early a date 
in life it was badly broken; as it was, 
he got about two quarts. This nut is 
hn excellent cracker and has fine flavor. 
The Stabler originated in Maryland, is 
a heavy bearer, and of almost unbe¬ 
lievable cracking quality. The shell is 
very thin and almost no middle partitions. 
' English Walnuts. —Through the ef¬ 
forts of the same group of men it has 
been found that because of great variation 
in English walnut trees, caused by the 
stock being grown from seeds instead of 
grafting, many push early in the Spring 
and become caught by a late frost. 
Others ripen up their wood so ’ate in 
the Fall that the wood is not hard enough 
to withstand the zero weather. By care¬ 
ful study it is believed that the French 
varieties of the improved sorts push Un- 
latest and mature the earliest in the 
Fall, the Wiltz Mayette and the Vroo 
man Franquette section. 
Propagation of Nut Trees. —As it 
has been round that the affinity between 
hard wood is very poor nut-tree grafting 
is many decades behind the fruit tree 
development, as it is impossible to repro¬ 
duce like varieties in any other way than 
by grafting or budding. Although today 
it requires great skill, which greatly in¬ 
creases the cost of growing, it is being 
done, and is believed to have revolu- 
tioninzed nut culture in the North. It is 
of special value in propagation of the 
English walnut because it is worked on 
the black walnut stock, a disease-free 
stock, making it a step nearer to being 
natural to our Northern climate. It also 
increases growth to that of the maple. 
The heart nut is a little tender, freezes 
sometimes when young and is rather 
short-lived compared to the black and 
English walnut. The Northern pecan is 
fast coming to the front as a family tree, 
as several trees are bearing lightly while 
quite young, and as it is an exceptionally 
beautiful tree, it is believed, as the va¬ 
rieties are improved, it will be found ’n 
every country orchard and lawn. The 
bearing age of the shellbark has been cut 
from 25 to 30 years down to 5 to 10 
years, by hybridizing with shagbarks and 
hickories. These trees are especially 
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