ure and
to numerous cultivators of the nut in all sections of the
country.

I have aimed at accuracy and brevity--and hope the following
pages will furnish just that practical information which I have
felt has long been desired.

THE COMPILER.

_English Walnuts._

[Illustration]

Viewed as a comparatively new industry, the culture of the
Persian or English Walnut is making remarkable strides in this
country. Owners of farms and suburban estates everywhere are
becoming interested in the raising of this delicious article of
food, thousands of trees being set out every year.

There are two important reasons for the rapidly growing
enthusiasm that is being manifested toward the English Walnut:
First, its exceptional value as a food property is becoming
widely recognized, one pound of walnut meat being equal in
nutriment to eight pounds of steak. Secondly, its superior worth
as an ornamental shade tree is admitted by everyone who knows the
first thing about trees. For this purpose there is nothing more
beautiful. With their wide-spreading branches and dark-green
foliage, they are a delight to the eye. Unlike the leaves of some
of our shade trees, those of this variety do not drop during the
Summer but adhere until late in the Fall, thus making an
unusually clean tree for lawn or garden. In addition to all this,
the walnut is particularly free from scale and other pests.

Up to the present time, the English Walnut has been more largely
in demand as a shade tree than as a commercial proposition; in
fact, so little attention has been given to the nuts themselves
that there are, comparatively speaking, few large producing
orchards in the United States, the greater portion of the total
yield of walnuts being procured from scattered field and roadside
trees. It is a little difficult to understand why they should
have been so neglected when there are records of single trees
bearing as much as 800 pounds of nuts in one year.

[Illustration: SIX YEAR OLD BEARING ENGLISH WALNUT TREE]

In 1895 this country produced about 4,000,000 pounds, and more
than 16,000,000 pounds of English Walnuts in 1907, with a
proportionate annual increase each year to the present. But, when
it is known that the United States is consuming yearly about
50,000,000 pounds of nuts, with the demand constantly increasing,
thereby necessitating the importation annually of something more
than 25,000,000 pounds, the wonderful