y to frost injury in the
North in short seasons lowering vitality of scions, all combine to make
walnut grafting with best methods available, a seasonal gamble.

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Forest Background

By John Davidson, Xenia, Ohio

(Read at the Ohio Nut Growers Annual Meeting, Ohio Agricultural
Experiment Station, August 16, 1946.)

Where did the Persian, or so-called "English" walnut come from? Why is
it a good commercial nut? The Pecan? How far can it be carried north
beyond its natural, or original, environment? The Pawpaw? Why is it not
a good commercial fruit? Why don't most people like it? What is the
matter with the mulberry in America? In China and Japan it has a score
of uses and great popularity.

These questions need an answer, and the answer almost invariably is that
the poorer va