being tried and should be of fruiting age soon. Mr. Rhodes has also
found, at Covington, a heartnut that is vigorous and productive under
west Tennessee conditions. He finds that it buds readily on the native
black walnut. Some budded trees of it are over a dozen years old. They
have medium sized nuts, smooth shelled (with fairly thick shells for a
heartnut) and kernels of good flavor, coming out whole when the nuts are
cracked carefully. I am giving this variety the name Rhodes, and
suggesting it for use in west Tennessee because of its adaptability and
the fact that it can be budded upon black walnut. Others have reported
Japanese walnut (including heartnut) varieties incompatible with black
walnut at other locations. Dr. Richards has propagated some other
heartnut varieties on black walnut, but finds them more variable than
the Rhodes, in obtaining a good union.

Paper Wrap Gives Summer-Long Protection to Transplanted Trees

Too commonly, transplanted nut trees suffer from sunscald injury on
their southwest sides during the first summer in the orchard. This
injury is particularly common on pecans, which suffer a severe shock
from transplanting and are slow in re-establishing vigorous growth. In
west Tennessee, as one grower puts it, "A pecan is doing well if it
holds one green leaf its first year." Pecans have been known to remain
dormant in their tops until the second spring after planting, and then
start growth. During this initial period of establishment in the
orchard, it is beneficial to give some kind of shade to the tree trunk,
to keep the bark from "cooking" and dying on part of the most exposed
side. Waxing of the trunks before planting helps reduce drying out of
the tops before the roots are partially regenerated and top growth
begins, but waxing alone, under our conditions, is not sufficient to
prevent the frequent occurrence of a dead area starting on the southwest
side of the trunk during the summer following tree setting.

Dr. Richards has found that a heavy wallpaper of a cheap grade, cut in
strips and wrapped spirally to cover the tree trunk from the ground up,
lasts through the season and eliminates nearly all of the sunscald
injury on pecans which he has moved from his farm nursery row to the
orchard. With trees that are shipped long distances, and allowed to dry
out too much before resetting, the results are not so uniform. We are
still in favor of the use of wax coatings on trees that must be