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f. F. JONES, LANCASTER, PA. 
was formerly thought that the'tree required excessive moisture for success ,but 
this was long disproven by the thousands of trees growing thriftily and bearing 
well on high and dry locations, and on a wide range of soils. The pecan has 
proven to do well on even light sandy soils, if the soil fertility is kept up, aa 
well as on the clay and clay loam soils. The varieties I am propagating are 
from Indiana, Iowa and Mo. and the trees are perfectly hardy. 
THE ENGLISH WALNUT, when budded or grafted upon the native black 
walnut stock, as I grow them, ripen their wood growth up earlier and better 
than do seedling trees and are therefore considerably hardier than seedling 
trees. Grafted on this stock, the tree is also adapted to a wider range of soils, 
but the tree is more exacting in its climatic requirements than is the black 
walnut or other native nuts. While the English walnut can be grown with 
more or less success in all the eastern, middle and southern states, (and I 
have good reports on both the growth and bearing from all these states) my 
opinion is that its cultural range for commercial orcharding will follow that 
of the sweet cherry in the eastern and northern states, and where the sweet 
cherry (Hearts and Bigarreaus) succeed, one need have no hesitation in mak¬ 
ing large plantings of my hardy budded and grafted trees. These trees are 
doing well in the lake region, from New York to Michigan; also in Mass, and 
Conn., as well as farther south, and mature their nuts well in the short seasons 
of these northern states, but on the heavy black lands from southern Indiana 
westward, their success is irregular and uncertain. The trees are doing well 
in Kentucky and in the Ozark mountains in Mo. and Ark. and should do well in 
Ok la. Contrary to my earlier expectations, my grafted varieties of the English 
walnut are doing well in S. C., Ga., and Ala. and it is believed the hardy, late 
vegetating, Mayette and Franquette will prove to be a profitable commercial 
proposition in these states. 
Mr. J. B. Wight, Cairo. Ga., says: “Both trees of the Rush English walnut 
bought of you a few years ago bore the past year. The nuts produced were 
The lllack Walnut planted 
“treeet tree. 1 lie Pecan i- al.so admirable adapted to 
till" put pose. 
