inds, but plant only for home
use and experimentally.

I believe the chestnut is a better money nut here than the pecan, as
natives here bear very sparsely and irregularly although the catkins or
male part usually come out in great profusion.

I note that you say "there is probably not much use in trying to grow
the pecan or Persian walnut outside the peach area." Here our pecan
seems as hardy as the average apple, withstanding 25 deg. below zero or more
with little or no injury. I find that the "Andrus" Persian walnut is
_much_ hardier than the "Pomeroy" as I planted two small one-year trees
that endured the following winter 20 deg. below, with no injury to even
terminal buds. So twenty years may show a change of opinion as to the
value of the Persian walnut in the Middle West.

The Japanese walnuts here are often injured by winter at 15 deg. below, but
there may be hardier types and varieties than those I have tried.

I have never been able to _graft_ the pecan successfully--annual or
budding has given me the only success I have had. And in years like this
and last, I find it very difficult to make a transplanted grafted pecan
live without watering.

I have failed, so far, in finding a practical method to keep chestnuts
in good eating and planting condition until spring. If stored in the
ground cellar or as peach pits, they mould, if kept in an ordinary
building they become too dry.

BENJAMIN BUCKMAN.

SOUTH WATERFORD, ME., November 21, 1914.

DEAR SIR:

I have just read in the last issue of the _Rural New-Yorker_ a very
interesting article on nut growing, giving your name.

For several years I have thought that it would be better for people in
the New England States to give more attention to nuts than so much to
apples, but I have not been in a position to start in with nut trees
much until now.

Although 65 years old and somewhat used up with rheumatism I am not
ready to give up yet....

When I started on this farm it did not produce a barrel of grafted
fruit. There were quite a lot of natural fruit trees that never had been
trimmed or cared for in any way. I grafted these trees and set out some
from time to time until now the farm produces from 500 to 800 barrels
per year.

This year apples at picking time sold slow for $1.00 per barrel for No.
1's, No. 2's not wanted at any price.

I often think that if I had set out a few acres of nut trees 25 years
ago they would have been more pro