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J. F. JONES, LANCASTER, PA. 
this, it was formerly thought that the tree required excessive moisture for suc¬ 
cess, but this was long disproven by the thousands of trees growing thriftly 
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, as 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 seed¬ 
ling 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 
rgood reports on both the growth and bearing from all these states) my opinion 
3s 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 making 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 north¬ 
ern 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 Okla. Contrary 
to my earlier expectations, my grafted varieties of the English walnut are do¬ 
ing 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. 
English Walnut Trees growing along the roadside. Property of M. Herr. These trees bear 
several bushels of nuts each year and without any cultivation, the land being used for pasture. 
