ickories
other than pecan, which grew well, made good unions and generally
outgrew the scions. John Hershey, however, says this is not a good
combination, but there are too many trees of Jones' propagation about
the country, to accept Hershey's verdict altogether. Carl Weschcke[23],
of St. Paul, uses bitternut largely or entirely; if it is a mistake, it
will be expensive. Hickories are slow to grow and one gets too few nuts
at best. It takes a lifetime to get even small crops, and for our part,
we want no bitternuts on the place. Too often shagbarks fail to unite
with bitternut and frequently they are short-lived.

In 1916 Mr. Jones propagated and introduced the Beaver hickory, from
central Pennsylvania, a supposed bitternut-shagbark cross. It proved of
little value and soon disappeared. The Fairbanks from northeast Iowa, a
similar cross, was introduced the same year. It was one of the prettiest
of all hybrids and stood up about the longest, but it had too much
bitterness in the pellicle encasing the kernel and was much subject to
weevil injury.

+Efforts with Persian Walnuts+

Many varieties of Persian (English) walnut were propagated and brought
into bearing. Mr. Jones included a majority of the varieties brought
into the country from France by Felix Gillet, of Nevada City, Calif., as
early as 1870. There were Franquette, Mayette, Meylan, Parisienne, and a
cutleaf variety which appears to have had no other name. A California
variety of which he thought well for a number of years was Eureka, a
western introduction of 1908. He propagated a number of eastern
varieties such as Lancaster (Alpine) in 1913, although credit went to
Mr. Rush; Boston, from Massachusetts, also in 1913; Ontario, from
Canada, in 1914; and probably others. He obtained Chinese walnuts, from
P. Wang, Kinsan Arboretum, Shanghai, and sold seedlings at wholesale.
These were an Asiatic form of _Juglans regia_. He limed the soil, and
thought the effects were beneficial. In this he was warmly supported by
T. P. Littlepage and more recently by growers in Northern Ohio; but
lately liming has not been found beneficial in Italy. All in all,
however, the Persian walnut was not particularly dependable, and during
the last few years the nursery which he left discontinued selling
Persian walnut trees. In the East, the trees of older varieties usually
were little more than interesting novelties.

+He Tried the Chinese Chestnut+

The Chinese chestnut was t