ack walnut
is, to my mind, one of the best commercial propositions.

I don't know how soon you can bring a black walnut orchard into bearing.
Here is a picture of a tree probably seven or eight years old, loaded
with nuts. That is a seedling tree. I should think a budded tree would
bear sooner than that.

I don't know much about walnut varieties. The Rush and Thomas are
excellent nuts. But this Stabler walnut, in my opinion, is in a class by
itself in cracking possibilities. It is simply a cracking proposition
with the black walnut, and that is, to my mind, about all there is to
it. Perhaps, other good varieties will be discovered. Then, suppose we
find, after a while, an English walnut much better and more profitable
than we have at present, and one that is blight resistant. If you have
an orchard of black walnuts you have an ideal stock to top-work to
English. I will show you one on my farm with a larger top than I cut off
grown in two summers, and it set some nuts last spring. So, if you want
a foundation for an English walnut orchard, you can't make any mistake
in planting the budded or grafted varieties of these black walnuts.

The black walnut is a beautiful roadside tree. There are different
types, the same as with the pecan tree. Here is a picture of curly black
walnut wood. The logs were cut from a tree in Kentucky. It took three
wagons to haul this one tree to market, and it brought thirty-five
hundred dollars.

THE PRESIDENT: I wish to present Mr. Stabler as the original propagator
of the tree that bears his name. The nuts of the Stabler black walnut
have been pronounced by a good many authorities as the best variety thus
far discovered.

MR. HENRY STABLER: Dr. Smith has just introduced me as the discoverer of
this walnut. This is hardly fair to Mr. Littlepage, who first introduced
and, probably, first propagated this walnut. It was discovered by my
grandfather a little over forty years ago. Nothing was done with it at
that time for the reason that nothing could be done, but I was not the
first one to get the idea of propagating it, because my father, who is
here today, attempted to graft these walnuts, and every cion failed.

It seems to me that Mr. Littlepage strikes the key-note in his article
in _The Country Gentleman_ last spring when he says that:

"Through the efforts of the Northern Nut Growers' Association there was
recently discovered a black walnut tree in Howard County, Maryland,
producing