
Upper left, Busseron Pecan and Kernel, life size. Lower left, Greenriver, same. The nuts 
of Burlington and Des Moines look much like the Greenriver. 
Upper right, section of Thomas Black Walnut shell. Right center, section of Stabler 
Walnut shell. Note its extreme thinness. At its left is half its kernel. Lower right, sec- 
tion of Stabler Walnut without middle partition. At its left is all its kernel. Same tree 
may produce both types. 
First “Must”: Get the right variety. 
The first attempt by the uninitiated to 
get the right English Walnut variety has 
usually been to get a good nut and plant 
it. That is the way I began. Now it so 
happens that the English Walnut tree 
seems to have an almost greater affinity 
for the pollen of some other species than 
for its own. For years a famous Walnut 
tree stood in Berks County, Pa., produc- 
ing fine crops of good nuts. The thrifty 
Pennsylvania German farmers carried 
them away by the thousand and planted 
them out, and they invariably got on their 
trees a sharp, spiny-hulled nut that re- 
sembled a butternut. The reason was that 
this English Walnut tree was pollinated 
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regularly by a butternut tree that stood 
about a quarter of a mile away to the 
northwest. 
My first nut tree was an English Wal- 
nut seedling. The parent tree is still 
bearing good nuts, but my seedling froze 
the first winter. I wonder what its father 
was? 
To get the right kind of an English Wal- 
nut tree you must get a grafted tree. 
There has been much search among the 
thousands of trees growing in the United 
States and there has been general agree- 
ment that a variety called the Wiltz- 
Mayette (V) is probably the best. Cer- 
tainly it has proved hardy in many an 
fastern experimental planting. I have 
