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J. F. JONES, LANCASTER, PA. 
A line specimen of the lllack Walnut growing: in Mass. 
Facilities For Growing Nut Trees 
I have gathered together here the largest and most valuable collection of 
new and rare varieties of nuts to be found. Owing to the difficulties encoun¬ 
tered in the propagation of nut trees and especially in grafting with scions 
from old, bearing trees, working up Mother Blocks and stocks of trees is slow 
and expensive. My Mother Blocks, having been grafted direct from the original 
trees, have taken considerable time and expense to build up, but taking scions 
for propagation from these first generation, pedigreed trees, insures both the 
genuineness of the varieties and early and prolific bearing of the trees. My 
soil and climatic conditions here are very favorable for the growing of this 
class of stock and I get here a very stocky tree with a well matured and well 
ripened wood growth that may be safely planted anywhere that nuts can be 
grown. 
