Now, if you plant
seedlings, that is what you are likely to get on your lawn. You may have
something that is not pretty except as a trunk, but the tree that
produces these very remarkable nuts is also one of the most beautiful in
its conformation. It is shaped just like an umbrella, rather low, very
spreading, and very frequently with a very much larger number of limbs
than almost any black walnut tree that I have ever seen, and its habit
of growing in the nursery confirms that opinion--that it produces a very
large number of buds and branches from each graft.

Mr. Littlepage has in his fence row, uncultivated and surrounded by
bushes of every kind, a small seedling walnut that he grafted this year
with the Stabler walnut. When he grafted the seedling it was a little
over an inch in diameter. I measured the growth from that graft
recently, and five shoots measured over five feet long, and others over
four feet long. Four month's growth--five shoots over five feet long!
Now, I don't know of any other walnut or any other nut tree that would
have produced that many shoots from a single graft. It makes a very
beautiful shade tree and has a top which is capable of producing very
large crops of fruit.

THE PRESIDENT: It sometimes makes me feel ashamed of my race when I
realize our limitations in comparison with the trees. We run across a
valuable type of tree genus, and we can make millions like it in a short
time. But when a remarkable specimen of the genus homo, arises, he stays
with us but a short while before we cart him off to the cemetery, and
that is the last of him. Does any one else wish to make a contribution
to the black walnut?

MR. M. P. REED: Mr. Littlepage made the remark that it is very easy to
propagate the black walnut. We haven't found it so. We have made almost
a complete failure of both budding and grafting.

MR. LITTLEPAGE: Well, I was speaking of my experience in grafting this
spring. I think I remarked that my personal experience in budding had
not gone far enough to tell definitely what the results are going to be.
But I put in about fifty-five grafts, and I had fifty of them to grow,
and of that fifty there were probably ten or twelve knocked out--thrown
out at the first cultivation--and probably thirty-five are growing there
yet. I don't know what Mr. White's experience was in Indiana. I think it
was, perhaps, not as good as he expected, because of the fact that a lot
of the bud-wood dried out,