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Title: English Walnuts
What You Need to Know about Planting, Cultivating and
Harvesting This Most Delicious of Nuts

Author: Various

Compiler: Walter Fox Allen

Release Date: August 13, 2006 [EBook #19038]

Language: English

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ENGLISH
WALNUTS

[Illustration]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT PLANTING, CULTIVATING
AND HARVESTING THIS
MOST DELICIOUS OF NUTS

(_Compiled by_ WALTER FOX ALLEN)

(Copyright 1912)

_Foreword._

Realizing the tremendous interest that is now being directed by
owners of country estates everywhere to the culture of the
Persian or English Walnut, I have compiled this little book with
the idea of supplying the instruction needed on the planting,
cultivation and harvesting of this most delicious of all nuts.

I have gathered the material herein presented from a large number
of trustworthy sources, using only such portions of each as would
seem to be of prime importance to the intending grower.

I am indebted to the United States Department of Agricult