Origin of the Littlepage 
This variety along with about fifty others, not yet proven, 
was raised from nuts we purchased from the Wisconsin Hort1- 
cultural Society in the Spring of 1935. In 1937 we started graft- 
ing black walnut stocks with wood from these seedlings, giving 
each seedling a number and being very careful to keep all of our 
records wstiaioht, so that each eraity carries the number of the 
seedling from which it was grafted. 
The graft from which these nuts were gathered was put on a 
black walnut stock in the Spring of 1938. This stock was small 
having been set the Fall previous. This graft first bore pistillate 
blossoms in the Spring of 1942, again in Spring of 1943 and in 
Spring of 1944 it also bore staminate blossoms. In Spring of 
1944 we pollinised the pistillate blossoms and twelve nuts were 
produced. It bore both pistillate and staminate blossoms in 
Spring of 1945, no nuts were set but the weather was so bad that 
this does not prove that this variety is not self fruitful. 
The grafts from this variety are vigorous and rapid growers, 
they appear to have a good deal of ruggedness, these grafts have 
come through making good trees in practically all cases we have 
been able to observe. 
On February 16, 1943, we experienced a very cold spell. That 
morning at Mr. Benton’s farm it was —34 degrees F. on a ther- 
mometer that is very reliable. While the graft from which these 
nuts were gathered is on higher ground, another graft of this 
variety was on as low or lower ground. Neither of these grafts 
were injured by the cold. The one from which these nuts were 
gathered produced pistillate blossoms the next Spring and all of 
the terminal buds of both grafts produced normal leaves. A 
Broadview Perian walnut graft of the same age growing within 
fifty feet of the graft from which the pictured nuts were gathered, 
was killed back to within six inches of the graft union, that is 
back to five year old wood. 
Of the twelve nuts produced, six were sent to Mr. C. A. Reed, 
Associate Pomologist, U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry Field Sta- 
tion, Beltsville, Md., for testing. Following is a copy of a letter 
from him giving his findings. 
