. It is very tasty even partially green,
and as it ripens my lady thinks it is very good, and I think it is good,
myself.

I have about two or three varieties of mulberries. I got them from Glen
St. Mary Nurseries in Florida. They make awfully good pig feed and bird
feed, and I don't mind eating them myself.

There are some honeylocust, Millwood and Calhoun. I purchased several
seedlings of thornless honeylocust from some northwestern nursery and
grafted them to Millwood and Calhoun. I also have four trees that are
ten years old and they have never borne. Last year there was one tree of
that hundred that bore heavily, and the rest of them are barren. It must
be lack of pollenization, or something. I am not getting fruit from my
honeylocust.

Someone asked me what I am going to do with all this stuff, and I said,
"Well, the squirrels and I will have lots of fun anyhow, and the cows
will eat the honeylocust if they ever bear."

I have two pecan trees that are bearing nicely. One is a Posey and the
other is a Greenriver, bearing very nicely. They are about ten years
old. I have some Schley and Delmas and Mahan, and they are not bearing.
I don't know why. We are out of the realm of the southern pecan and too
far south for the northern pecan, I am afraid.

My Persian walnut, heartnut and Japanese walnut think it is spring too
quick, and every year they burst out and grow about so long, and then
they fall down and die from freezing, and then they grow out, and this
time of the year you look at them and you say, "That's a beautiful
tree," But they freeze just enough to get the fruit each year.

Mr. McDaniel came by last spring a year ago and left with me a little
scion of a Carpathian walnut, the Bayer selection. I wasn't present,
but he left it with my lady and suggested to my lady that I would know
what to do with it. I put it on a common black walnut grafted about so
high, and it is ten feet high now growing nicely, but this spring I
noticed that it, too, thought the spring was here before it was here. I
don't know how it is going to bear. I may have to take it out on top of
the hill and re-graft it on a high place where it has more air drainage.

Of the Chinese chestnut, I planted about a hundred, but I planted them
in a cut-over woodland that was full of native chestnut sprouts. You
know how the chestnut sprouts will do. They grow up and blight out and
die down, and another sprout comes from the stump. They have be