NORTHERN-GROWN NUT TREES 
HARDY 
ACCLIMATED 
ENGLISH 
WALNUTS 
The large and growing demand for English 
Walnuts, as evidenced by increasing importations 
and advancing prices, promises much for the future 
profitableness of this crop. In public favor, the 
Walnut is at least the equal, if not the superior, of 
the Pecan. English Walnuts are now grown suc¬ 
cessfully in Monroe County, N. Y.. and there are 
several large and productive orchards between Roch¬ 
ester and Buffalo. While not iron-clad in point of 
hardiness, it is generally conceded that acclimated 
English Walnuts will succeed wherever peaches 
thrive. We have seen peach trees planted alongside 
of English Walnut trees, killed by frost and the 
Walnuts escape. In the matter of soils upon which 
they can succeed, the English Walnuts show con¬ 
siderable versatility. fn California and Oregon, 
where there are extensive orchards, we find groves 
producing bountifully on soil of a decidedly clayey character; other 
groves making fine growth on clayey hill lands of buckshot nature, where 
drainage is good and there is no hardpan or rock; other groves succeeding 
in the rich loam of valley lands, and still others at t.ooo feet elevation. 
The one requisite generally agreed upon, however, is that there must 
be no rock or hardpan.to stop or retard the growth of the tap-root. Tlie 
richer soils are naturally best, as is the case in all other horticultural 
pursuits, but industr}- on the part of the orchardist. applied in the 
direction of careful cultivation and fertilization, will produce eminently 
successful orchards on indifferent soil. Continual hoeing and digging 
constitute the best treatment. An effective treatment for a young 
(trehard is to plow between the rows after the spring rains cease and then 
stir the soil occasionally throughout the summer with disk or harrow. 
Moisture is thus retained much longer. No tree responds to cultivation 
as does the Walnut. 
There are many English Walnut trees, planted on lawns here in 
Rochester, producing bountifully each year delicious nuts without any 
special attention—the character of soil, entirely ignored. 
On the subject of planting Walnuts, we quote no less an authority 
than T-uther Burbank, who states: “No one who grows English Walnuts 
on their own 'roots need expect to be able to compete with those who 
grow them on Native Black Walnut roots, for when grown on these 
roots the trees will uniformly be larger and longer lived, will hardly be 
affected by blights and other diseases, and will bear from two to four 
times as man}' nuts, which will be of larger size and of much better 
(piality. These are facts, and W^alnut growers should take heed.*' 
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