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wood from Arizona ought to be a sufficient proof that there is nothing in the 
dryness of our climate to prevent its successful growth on a large scale in Cali¬ 
fornia, while the other fact that our forests are being rapidly stripped of redwood 
trees makes it imperative that more attention should be paid to tree culture.— 
Cor. Oakland Tim.es. 
Walnuts.—There are plenty of buyers of walnuts anxious to contract for the 
new crop at eight and a half cents per pound, a price which gives the grower an 
. enormous profit. Mr. Kroeger has in his yard twenty walnut trees from which 
he sold last year $200 worth of nuts, at the rate of six and a half cents per 
pound. The only drawback to planting a walnut grove is in the length of time 
which intervenes between the planting and the bearing of the trees. The tree 
seldom bears much of a crop under ten years ; and as in looking into the future a 
decade seems an age, the prospect has operated against the general planting of 
the groves .—Anaheim Oazetle. 
Black Walnut Trees.—Many of the interior papers very wisely advise the 
farmers of California to set out black walnut trees. The Solano Republican says: 
A few acres of these trees will make a farmer rich in a very few years. A black 
walnut grove, which was planted in Wisconsin twenty years ago, recently sold 
for $27,000. We import from the East large quantities of this timber at great 
, cost of transportation, when the timber could be raised in this State to great 
pecuniary advantage .—Resources of California. 
Some twenty years ago F. C. Graves, of Stony Creek, set out a lot of walnut 
trees, one of which will measure now at least four feet in diameter. The body is 
not very long, but the timber from it would be worth $50. These trees have paid 
for the land they occupy a dozen times over with the nuts they have borne. The 
trees have been no trouble and have had no water.—Colusa Sun. 
Black Walnut Culture.—To show our farmers what can be done by planting 
black walnut trees, we give the experience of Mr. Graves, of Texas, Ten years 
^ago he planted ten acres to walnut trees, by hand, two hundred to the acre, in 
all two thousand trees. The trees are now nine inches through, and grow at the 
rate of an inch a year, and when twenty years old they will be worth $25 a tree, 
making the forest worth at that time $50,000. But this is not all. Last year the 
trees bore 400 bushels of walnuts, which brought $2.50 per bushel, making $1,000 
for the ten acres of land—good interest for land worth $15 per acre. If at the 
age of twenty years, half of the trees are cut and sold for $25 a tree, or $25,000 
the nuts per year from the remaining 1,000 trees will be worth $2,500 a year. Do 
not these figures clearly show that there is profit in walnut trees?—Sacramento Bee. 
All Nut Trees should be transplanted to the places where they are to grow 
when one year old. At two years of age the tap root is so large that they cannot 
safely be moved. 
California Black Walnut.—The most rapid growing of all the Walnut 
family. One of the best for shade. The nuts are good, and the wood is said to 
be very valuable for cabinet work. Price, $10 to $25 per 100, according to size, 
Eastern Black Walnut.—A more spreading grower than the above. The 
trees bear here when quite young. The wood is the Black Walnut of commerce, 
so highly valued for cabinet work. Price, $10 per 100 ; $75 per 1000. 
