Our Unnamed Crath Carpathian 
Persian Walnut Varieties 1947 
These new varieties are selections from our seedling Carpa- 
thians and have been developed in the same way as was our 
Littlepage variety. 
At least one of these varieties is a good pollinizer for 
Littlepage. This variety is No. S 22, it also produces a good nut 
itself. It also blossoms at the right time so that Littlepage acts 
as a pollinizer for it. Littlepage produces pollen before the pis- 
tillate blossoms while S 22 does just the reverse. We used pollen 
of S 22 on Littlepage this past Spring and have a fine set of nuts 
on Littlepage now. 
Some of these varieties are considerably later than others, 
as to the starting of the buds in the Spring. Thus if one is 
located in a region of late Spring frosts, the later starting varie- 
ties might tend to escape injury to the new foliage and blossoms. 
Littlepage is the earliest starting Persian walnut variety we 
have. This may prove to be a fault, however we have never had 
the foliage or the catkins frozen so far. This past Spring the 
catkins on another variety were frozen badly while those on 
Littlepage were uninjured, although they were farther advanced 
than the ones that were frozen and was located in as bad or a 
worse location for frost injury. The pistillate blossoms of Little- 
page are late enough so that there is no danger of frost injury 
to them. 
While Littlepage and S 22 will act as pollinizers for each 
other, we believe it good policy to set several varieties, if you 
have room. 
We have now carried our testing of these new varieties about 
as faras we can here. Of course we will get a little further data 
on them. But, now, the need is to find out how they will behave 
in other locations and under other conditions. We believe they 
are hardy enough and they mature their nut early enough so 
that they can be grown considerably farther north than here. We 
have proven that they will succeed here and will bear nuts good 
enough to make them worthwhile varieties to grow. It is prob- 
able that some of these varieties will never be named, but it is 
also probable that some of them will show adaptability and 
sufficient merit so that they will be named. We will have other 
varieties to add to this list as. more of our seedlings begin to 
bear. 
