cond, add lime without the cultivation.
One great feature of the treatment of the tree in France, where the best
walnuts come from, is the addition of a little lime every year, even if
it's a limestone ground, and that may possibly account for the delicate
character of the French walnuts and the reason why they have the first
call in the market. I don't know that that is true, but it seems to me,
at least, a collateral fact, and collateral facts often mean something.

Mr. Pomeroy: Judging from my own experience I think that that orchard
would be producing now two or two and a half bushels per tree each year
if put under cultivation and given the care of an ordinary peach
orchard.

Mr. Reed: These are seedling trees, you understand, in that orchard we
showed. This is a Persian walnut tree in Mr. Rush's front yard. I've
forgotten the variety.

Mr. Rush: That is the Kaghazi.

Mr. Reed: Now we come to the original hickories. This is one of the
earliest hickory nuts propagated, in fact, it's about the only one so
far. That tree is owned by Mr. Henry Hales of Ridgewood, N. J.

Prof. Smith: Have they fertilized it?

Mr. Reed: No, not especially. It stands on good, fertile soil but I
think no attention has ever been paid to it in the way of cultivation.

Prof. Smith: Have you its yielding record?

Mr. Reed: It never made large records; as I recall it now, it has never
borne more than a few bushels at any one time, perhaps two bushels.

The Chairman: One reason is because it has been cut back regularly every
year for scions?

Mr. Reed: Yes, that's true.

Prof. Smith: Over two hundred years old, then?

The Chairman: I doubt if that tree is over fifty or sixty.

Mr. Reed: That's what I should say,--somewhere in the neighborhood of
fifty or sixty years old.

Mr. Reed: That slide shows a typical grafted tree in Mr. Hales' garden.
It's a nice shapely, thrifty tree about seven years old and only
recently came into bearing to any extent. The nurserymen have had great
difficulty in propagating it until recently. Now that Mr. Jones has come
up from the South and he and Mr. Rush are getting down together
earnestly in the propagation of these northern trees, we will probably
have more of them, but in all the years that Mr. Hales has been working
with that particular variety, he has never been able to get more than a
few trees grown in the nursery, so it is not disseminated to any extent.

The Chairman: Do you think that t