and some other nuts,--chestnuts,
black walnuts and possibly Persian walnuts.

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Hilton, N. Y.
Nov. 29, 1912.

Dear Sir:

In reply to your inquiry I am inclosing notes on walnut culture in this
locality. This noble fruit is not generally known here. I do not know of
more than twelve or fifteen bearing trees in my county. Of these all are
without doubt seedlings, and are located in places where the peach will
thrive. The soil in which they grow is varied: Dunkirk fine sand,
Dunkirk silt loam, Ontario fine sand loam, and Ontario loam. (See soil
survey of _Monroe county_, N. Y. U. S. Dept. Agriculture.) The altitude
is comparatively low. The highest point in the county is only 682 ft.
above lake Ontario, and the average elevation is not more than 300 ft.
The "Holden" walnuts are growing at a still lower level. This tree,
considering its surroundings and location, had a good crop this year.
Standing on the lawn uncultivated and unfertilized, hemmed in on three
sides by other trees, it gave us at least three bushels of fine nuts.

The wood showed no injury after last winter's intense cold. Growth
started in the spring just as the apple blossoms came out. The catkins
are very large, at least much larger than those on the other trees we
have, and hang on longer. One of our trees loses its male blossoms
before the female bloom appears, but the "Holden" is the last to lose
them. About half of the clusters of fruit have two or three nuts in
them. We began harvesting the nuts Sept. 15th, just four months from the
blossom. The dropping continued for a month, prolonged on account of
lack of frost.

Last week the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported the appearance
of the first load of English walnuts ever brought on the local market.
They were grown on fifteen year old seedlings, at East Avon, N. Y., by
Adelbert Thompson. His orchard is said to contain 200 trees. It seems
very probable that the next twenty-five years will see the development
of Persian walnut growing, to commercial proportions, in those
localities in the state where the peach will grow.

I had a little experience last spring with southern grown walnut trees.
Last spring I received from Louisiana eleven trees of the "Holden"
variety grafted on black walnut stocks. They were fine trees, the
largest at leas