sh: About two weeks.

Mr. Reed: In about two weeks take off the wrapping; and about how much
longer is it before you get a growth like that?

Mr. Rush: About two weeks more, three weeks more.

Mr. Reed: In about four or five weeks from the time of the operation a
growth like that is not uncommon.

Prof. Smith: When is the top cut off?

Mr. Rush: When I see that growth is taking place I cut the top off in
order to encourage the growth to get strong enough for the winter. Of
course our object is to keep the bud dormant until the following season,
perfectly dormant, but sometimes they do make a growth and, if they do,
cut them off at the top and force them. You will not get that bud to
grow next summer, but another bud starts out below that branch and gives
you your tree.

Mr. Reed: That one dies then?

Mr. Rush: Yes, sir, invariably dies.

Mr. Reed: There is one of Mr. Rush's own growing of the Rush walnut, a
little tree which, in its second season, matured two nuts. That
photograph was taken just about the time the nuts were ready to be
gathered.

Mr. Corsan: I noticed in the nurseries at the Michigan Agricultural
College, a lot of black walnuts that were sun-scalded. They were too far
apart. Can anyone tell us anything about this danger of sun-scald to the
trunk?

Mr. Reed: Well, in this particular instance, the tree stands right next
to a fence, so it is protected from the hot sun during a large part of
the season. Perhaps Mr. Rush could tell us whether he has had any
trouble with sun-scald.

Mr. Rush: Not at all, none whatever, never.

The Chairman: There is, in some localities, a great deal of danger from
sun-scald. In the vicinity of Stamford, Conn., most of the English
walnuts will sun-scald more or less unless we look out for that and give
them shade; mostly in the trunk below the branches.

Mr. Lake: How about the nuts?

The Chairman: I haven't seen any scalding there.

Mr. Reed: These are all interesting points and I am glad to have them
thrown in. Mr. Rush can tell us about this slide. It is one of the
cut-leafed varieties of walnut from California that he is propagating.
It is more of an ornament than it is a commercial nut, isn't it?

Mr. Rush: It is both combined. It is very productive and very hardy. The
nut is not quite as large as the Nebo. It is the cut-leafed weeping
walnut. The first tree that came from California cost twenty dollars. It
is very ornamental.

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