have the
advantage of intensive cultivation. The best of the resulting trees may
be grafted or budded in the rows, or after they have been transplanted
and have become well established. This method is an excellent one and
has distinct advantages and many advocates.

Yearling seedlings may be bought and set either in permanent positions
or in nursery rows.

Of course the man who is in a hurry, who can disregard expense and who
does not care for the experience and gratification of grafting his own
trees, may set his whole plantation with expensive grafted trees and
replant where they fail.

The technique of budding and grafting you must work out yourself with
the help of the instructions obtainable from several authorities, or, by
far the surer way, study the art with a master. The essentials are good
stocks and good scions, the right moment--and practice.

Excellent publications giving instructions in methods of propagation
are: "The Persian Walnut Industry in the United States," by E. R. Lake;
Bulletin 254, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture,
1913: "The Pecan," by C. A. Reed; Bulletin 251 of the same department,
1912: "Walnut Growing in Oregon," published by the Passenger Department
Southern Pacific Company Lines in Oregon, Portland, Oregon, revised
edition, 1912; and "Nut Growing in Maryland," by C. P. Close; Bulletin
125 of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, College Park,
Maryland. Any of these may be had free on application.

The files and current issues of the nut journals are full of
information. Join the nut growers associations, subscribe to the nut
journals, get all the literature (see Circular No. 3) and you will soon
be happily out of the fledgeling stage of nut growing and begin to do as
you please.

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The Chairman: Comment upon this paper is now in order.

Mr. Lake: You say you are going to issue that?

The Secretary: On my own responsibility, but subject to modification.

Mr. Lake: If that is going out as a circular of the association, I would
like to suggest two slight changes. For instance, you wouldn't expect
the ordinary nut tree to begin to bear as early as the ordinary
transplanted apple tree.

The Chairman: Some would.

Mr. Lake: A summer apple would begin to bear much earlier than the
ordinary nut tree.

The Secretary: Well, chestnuts begin to bear very early after grafting.
I refer only to grafted trees here