In 1936 we purchased two pounds of the nuts imported from 
Poland that winter; from these we have about 50 seedlings growing 
and have started grafting from these seedlings onto black walnut 
stocks. We are not trying to sell any of these grafts until they begin 
to bear, so that we can judge of their merits. 
This past winter we had a real test as to the hardiness of our 
Carpathians, as on the morning of February 16th we experienced the 
low temperature of —34° F. With our named varieties, all last year’s 
grafts in the nursery were killed, but with our older grafts, only one, 
Crath No. 1, was killed outright. However all suffered some damage, 
not really serious, as it killed the wood (or possibly only the buds) 
back only to the two or three year old wood, from which dormant 
buds started and the trees have made good growth, so that in two or 
three years there will very likely be no visible sign of the injury. Of 
course the nut crop was eliminated and would have been on older 
trees. We will discontinue to propagate the Crath No. |. 
Our seedling varieties under test, showed considerable more 
hardiness as none were killed outright. The damage ranged from 
about that of the named varieties to no visible signs of injury at all; 
one variety bloomed normally and would have borne nuts if we had 
had pollen to fertilize the blossoms. We are making records of the 
degree of injury to each variety so that later their hardiness can be 
considered in the evaluation of the merits of each variety. 
BROADVIEW PERSIAN (ENGLISH) WALNUT 
This variety originated from a nut brought over from Russia 
and planted in British Columbia. The original tree has withstood 
temperatures of —25° F. and a grafted tree of this variety, grown by 
Mr. Carl Walker of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where the minimum 
temperature during the winter of 1933-34 was —26° F., showed 
only slight injury which did not seriously damage the tree. This nut 
is of good size, thin shell and as good or better than the best of the 
California English walnuts. 
This past winter the Broadview came through the winter just 
about the same as the named varieties of Carpathians did, i. e., killed 
back into the two year old wood, but made good growth this summer. 
