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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1912 
Northern Grown 
English Walnuts 
Now Thrive Wherever Peaches May Be Grown 
You can now grow wonderful English Walnuts in your door-yard or orchard, 
just as you’ve always grown the peach and other fruit trees. In Northern and 
Eastern States, wherever peaches will grow, these hardy English Walnuts will live 
and yield bountifully. 
Near Lockport, N. Y., a large English Walnut orchard now produces immense 
crops of delicious nuts each year. 
Our acclimated English Walnuts are hardier than peach, and have withstood 
without injury, winter temperature that killed nearby peach trees. 
English Walnut—For Ornament or 
Profit A Tree Unmatched 
Thus, science has given the northern orchardist a new crop, far more profit¬ 
able, and easier to harvest and market than any ordinary fruit crop. Demand for 
nuts exceeds supply and prices yield growers large profits. California’s English Wal¬ 
nut crop has a greater actual money value than her famed orange crop. 
For the lawn, the acclimated English Walnut is superb, with its smooth, light gray 
bark, luxuriant dark green foliage, lofty, symmetrical growth. 
Whether you plant for ornament or profit, investigate acclimated English Walnuts. Catalog 
and information mailed free on request. 
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mulched orchard is a most pleasant place 
to work in. There is no mud and the few 
apples that fall are not bruised. There is 
also less labor in maintaining the mulch 
system than in cultivating. 
The application of commercial fertiliz¬ 
ers to many old orchards will bring re¬ 
markable results, especially on soils that 
are thin and worn. Fertilizers may be ap¬ 
plied when either the cultivation or mulch 
system is used. Study conditions to find 
what your soil requires. Then apply the 
fertilizer in liberal quantities and the re¬ 
turns will be in proportion. A few cents’ 
worth of fertilizer to the tree often re¬ 
turns the expenditure a hundred fold in 
fruit. Naturally as the fruit buds are 
formed one season and the fruit the next, 
the greatest returns cannot be expected 
until the second season, but the growth 
and color of the foliage the same season 
the chemicals are applied will be an index 
to the success of the application. Feed 
your orchard liberally but by all means 
do not give it too much. 
It very often happens that the subsoil in 
an old orchard is naturally or has become 
very hard and in a poor condition for the 
growth of the tree. A hard-pan a foot or 
so below the surface prevents a downward 
growth of the roots. The trees easily blow 
over and drainage is poor. The trees can¬ 
not avail themselves of any but surface 
fertility and water, with the natural re¬ 
sults of small apples and poor crops when 
the tree should be in its prime. In an old 
neglected and pastured orchard this is 
especially true on clay lands. The use of 
dynamite under and around such trees 
will greatly relieve these conditions. 
Four small charges of about a quarter 
stick of 40% dynamite placed equally 
about the circumference of the outer edge 
of the branches will break up the subsoil, 
when placed about three feet deep. A 
half a stick directly under the trunk will 
result in the effect of a root pruning as 
well as loosing the soil. All this break¬ 
ing of the old roots will result in a fresh 
growth of the root which will keep pace 
with the new top growth resulting from 
pruning. 
Each charge of dynamite, as well as 
breaking up the subsoil, also creates as 
it were, a huge sponge of earth which 
gathers and retains moisture. This mois¬ 
ture dissolves and renders available the 
food material of the tree. The roots pene¬ 
trating this sponge draw this food-rich 
moisture and a very large amount of new 
fertility is within reach. The amount of 
water a full growing tree requires is enor¬ 
mous and to assist the tree in obtaining it 
is highly important. The small cost of 
dynamite is quickly repaid in increased 
crops. 
Dynamite is also very handy in remov¬ 
ing undesirable trees and stumps from an 
old orchard. A full charge of dynamite 
not only does the work quickly and cheap¬ 
ly, saving hard labor and much time, but 
leaves the ground in best possible con¬ 
dition for planting a new tree, if this 
course is decided upon. The heavy charge 
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