mately the home
of the species, the name "Persian Walnut" is regarded as most
suitable, but inasmuch as "English Walnut" is better known here,
we shall use that name in this treatise.

As a material for the manufacture of gunstocks and furniture the
timber of the nut was long in great demand throughout Europe and
high prices were paid for it. Early in the last century as much
as $3,000 was paid for a single large tree for the making of
gunstocks.

[Sidenote: =Planting and Cultivation=]

Everything depends upon the planting and cultivation of English
Walnuts as indeed it does of all other fruits from which the very
best results are desired. The following general rules should be
thoroughly mastered.

PLANT ENGLISH WALNUT TREES:

On any well-drained land where the sub-soil moisture is not
more than ten or twelve feet from the surface.

Wherever Oaks, Black Walnuts or other tap-root nut trees
will grow.

Forty to sixty feet apart.

In holes eighteen inches in diameter and thirty inches
deep.

Two inches deeper than the earth mark showing on the tree.

AND REMEMBER:

That the trees need plenty of good, rich soil about their
roots.

That the trees should be inclined slightly toward
prevailing winds.

That the trees should not be cut back.

That the ground cannot be packed too hard around the roots
and the tree.

That the trees should be mulched in the Fall.

That the ground should be kept cultivated around the trees
during the Spring and Summer.

That English Walnut trees should be transplanted while
young, as they will often double in size the year the
tap-root reaches the sub-soil moisture (that is, the
moist earth).

That tap-root trees are the easiest of all to transplant if
the work is done while the trees are young and small.

That trees sometimes bear the third year after
transplanting three-year-old trees where the sub-soil
moisture is within six or eight feet of the surface.

That the age of bearing depends largely on the distance the
tap-root has to grow to reach the sub-soil moisture.

[Sidenote: =Peculiarities of Growth=]

The growth of the English Walnut is different from that of most
fruit trees. The small trees grow about six inches the first
year, tap-root the same; the second year they grow about twelve
inches, tap-roo