Show NUT CULTURE At the Site January meeting of tha Deli Dela Delaware ware Horticultural society J R Kerr In ina a paper on Nut Culture made a plea plen for or the more planting lanting of nut bearing tre trees i saying laying that the yearly pro proceeds per acre of common Cluck black wal nuts atone when trees are 10 to H 13 years yearn old should bo not less than Ii 29 To start a grove procure a couple bushels of the and finest nuts obtainable before they have become dry Either stratify them In moist earth or mark off the tho ground Intended for far the grove at a eli tanca of 25 23 feet each way at the Inter intersections sections Motions of thin the shallow furrows thus made drive substantial stakes and be beside side each stake drop a couple nuts and cover with soil oll to the depth of two Inches if but a single nut Is droOled vacancies are more likely to occur and ant If both boti germinate anti and grow at the end of pt the tho first season reason one can easily caSily he be pulled out without Injury to the other An additional covering of nn an Inch with line manure during the leisure of winter will odd add materially to the tho growth of the tho seedlings time the first season and the tho stakes driven as recommended will serve ni as a protective guide In plowing the tho land the following spring for other crops Cultivate vate about as good farmers would a corn crop allowing no weeds or grass to grow up Ull near the tho stakes After the tho first year the tue care for and culture of the grove grovo becomes less exacting annually A shell shellbark bark grove I would arrange In much tho same Fame manner also Japan walnuts though tho last named I find stands transplanting from nursery much more than either cither the black wal isai walnut nut or the tha and greatly exceeds either of the tho others In productiveness while they come Into bearing ut at a much earlier period There are not however up to the tho any definite data as tu to the tho market value of tOte tho nuts as they are not yet yot grown In sufficient volume to give them a ratings rating neither aro facts available as to a lumber value of the trees though In that relation I take It tn tO be more near nearly nearby ly by allied to our ichito walnut or butter butternut nut hilt than to the titO black The trees are very vigorous rapid growers and when In full Collage pf nt n t semitropical appearance quit quilt captivating to the eye any fly one fond of minu oui trees For planting the tue variety known n as la is preferable on account of tins larger rise cite of Its nuts Chestnut culture so far an as concerns particular kinds Is s quite as muC debatable today as the policy of our government In ii Its ita recognition of the tho Independence of Panama For commercial purposes the best early varieties of the mite Japans turn are more profitable than the Europeans which ara aru better In iii quality If It such varieties are grown In an Iso isolated way and seed aced can bo ito procured from then them the trees grown from these seed they possibly may bo be Influenced by bythe bythe the laws of hert antedating direct will not show variation In term arm and season of their product sufficiently material to affect their value for commercial Hence trees grown from Intelligently selected seed are thoroughly Afo to plant Where Siere the Eu European European varieties ore aro desired this plan It is not feasible In no Instance out of a largo large number of trees grown from carefully ie ac teed seed of the tho Paragon was this lute fine Put nut anywhere nearly nearl duplicated so graft grafted ed Cd or budded trees must b be used Ing a ft grove of this type Thres of either species should be p planted anted at least 30 feat apart each way cultivated and cared for forthe forthe the same as a fruit orchard until trees are aro In full bearing 4 |