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Show o i English Walnut Trees An Appreciation I Editor Banner: H a man who mnkos two blades or grass grow whero ono grow before Is n beneractor to the race, then It can bo claimed that the late James Harwood was a beneractor to mankind, man-kind, ror ho caused many vnluablo trees to grow whoro nono or thoro kind grow before. Perhaps the man who first plnntcd English Walnut trees ln Utah was James Harwood of Lehl. It is now forty years slnco ho planted a fow in his back yard, three of which survived sur-vived tho ordeal of becoming nccll-mntcd. nccll-mntcd. They mado n vigorous growth after tho soventh year, nnd havo born nuts every year for twenty-eight years. Thoy nro stately trees, with wldo spreading branches, nnd at this time of tho years aro loaded with nuts. These trees are destined to become the progenitors or u glorious progeny. pro-geny. They nro as hardy ao a Jonathan Jona-than apple tree, and tho crop is more certain because thoy bloom Inter; the cost or the product Is more staple and the cost or production Icbs. J. T. Harwood has n small grovo or tho second generation in Salt Lako City, and a grovo or about ten ncreB on his farm In M1U Creek. Jesse Knight has ja grove near Provo. L. M. Glllllnu Tis removed one-fourth or tho trees his ten ncro peach orchard, and has planted with Hnrwood English Walnuts. Many, trees hnvo beon lantcd n6ronnnitnerv over tho BtntQ Ind n few' in Idaho and Colorado. Recently tho Park Commissioner or Salt Lako becamo Interested, with tho result that tho city placed an ordor ror a thousand trees. When I visited J. T. Harwood last wlntor to Inquire nbout English Wnl-nuts, Wnl-nuts, ho told mo that the trees at Lohl each boro a different nut. Number Num-ber ono produces n small nut of lino quality, but has n hard shell; number two n larger nut of fnlr quality and n thin Bholl; number threo produces tho Inrgest nut but tho quality Is poor. Ho then allowed mo a nut different from those, tho product of seeding from tree number two, whoso blossoms blos-soms hnd becomo cross-pollenlzod by treo number ono. This nut wub medium med-ium In size with thin shell and flno quality. Thus tho foundation for successful nut growing ln Utah has been laid, and James Harwood's vision of English Eng-lish Walnut groves dotting tho slopes and bonchos of this and other fnvorcd counties of Utah Is becoming reality. M. A. PENDLETON, o- |