OCR Text |
Show English Walnut Trees An Appreciation Editor Banner: If a man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor to tho race, then It can be claimed that tho late JameB Iurwood was n benefactor to man kind, for ho caused many valuable trees to grow where nono of there kind grow before. Perhnps the man who first plnnted English Wulnut trees In Utah wns lames Harwood of Lehl. It Is now forty years since he planted a few u his back yard, three of which survived sur-vived the ordeal of becoming; acclimated. accli-mated. Thoy mado a vigorous growth after tho seventh year, nnd hnvo born nuts every year for twenty-eight years, They arc stately trees, with wide spreading branches, mid at this time of the years aro loaded with nuts. These trees are destined to become the progenitors of n glorious progeny pro-geny Thoy nre as hardy as a Jonathan Jona-than apple tree, and the crop Is more certain becauso they bloom later; the cost of tho product Is more stnplo and the cost of production less. J. T. Harwood has a small grovo of tho second generation In Salt Lake City, nnd a grovo of obout ten acres on his farm In MIU Creek. Jesso Knight has n grove near Provo. L. M. Gillilan has removed one-fourth of tho trees In his ten acre peach orchard, and has planted with Hurwood English Walnuts. Many trees have been planted here nnd thero over tho atnte nnd n fow In Idaho and Colorado. Recently tho Park Commissioner of Snlt Lako became Interested, with tho result that the city placed an order for a thousand trees. Whon I visited J T Harwood last winter to lnn.u!ro nbout English Walnuts, Wal-nuts, ho told mo that the trees nt Lehl each bore a different nut. Number Num-ber ono produces n small nut of flue Quality, but has a hard shell; number two n larger nut of fair quality and a thin shell; number Mirce produces tho 'nrgost nut but tho quality is poor. Ho then showed me a nut different from these, the product of seeding from treo number two, whoso blossoms blos-soms hnd becotno cross-pollenlzed by treo "number ono. This nut wus med-ttim med-ttim in size with thin shell nnd flue quality. Thus tho foundation for successful nut growing In Utah has been laid, and James Harwood's vision of English Eng-lish Walnut groves dotting tho slopes nnd benches of this and other favored counties of Utah Is becoming reality. M. A. PENDLETON. |