Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-30
STATE HoRrrcuLruaAL SOCIETY.

The monthly meeting of the California
State horticultural Society was held in San
Francisco; President Hilgard in the chair.
Articles amendatory to the bylaws of the
Society were adopted to the effect that bat
one hour be devoted to the discussion OF any
single subject. and that speakers, exceps the
leading speaker, be given but five minutes
each, except by vote Of the Society.
Mr.. Jessup offered q series of resolutions,
which were adopted, approving the action oil
the State Board CT Horticulture by which
DIR. Chaplin was made Inspector OF Fruit
Pests.
An interesting essay YVES read by w. u.
West, OF Stockton, on the English Walnut
in California" He regards their culture as
profitable.
Mr.. Shinn spoke of tbs dssirabiEty Of a
Persian walnut which he is growing. It ia o
good bearer. The nut has q thin shell, and
is otherwise desirable.
The English walnut. said Mr.. Smith, d
Vaeaville, does not succeed 10 our locality.
The leaves and sometimes the small limbs
seen q tres bear fruit to amount to anything.
They grow rapidly during the first part OF
the season, but sre burned in August.
Mr.. West stated, in answer to question
BY Mr.. Coates, that he believed certain wal
nut seedlings with fixed types would repro
duce themselves truly.
Mr.. Coates said that the common English
walnuts ara not success in the Napa valley.
MIR. Jessup, of Hsywar5s, stated that on
lis trees the staminate and pistilate bios
SONS did not appear at the same time. conse-
quently his trees did not bear. This was the
case before 1880 On that year he found a
few staninate blossoms remaining on the
tree when the pistillates appeared, and he
artifcially fertilized the pistillates and &C.
cured good crop Of nuts. Sincs then tbs
trees ere sending odt both kinds Of blossoms
at the same time, and the trees are bearing
we'll. MIR. Jessup said also that he had lately
returned from San Buenaventura, and he b.
lieyed that part part of the State to be the
best region for the walnut. That district ia
also excellenily adapted for the apricot.
DIR. Chaplin believed climatic conditions
have much to do with the SUCCESS of the wal
nut. He spoke of Chile seeding walnut,
planted thirty years ago IN tie vicinity OF
San Jose, which is now six feet in diameter.
It besrs barrel of nuts year, and is not in
jured by frost, while other trees Of different
origin are injured. La DIR. Chapia's district.
near Santa Glars, the walnut does well, es
there is not frost enough to kill the young
wood.
In Solano county. MIR. Hatch said, the
walnut had been planted and then dug cut,
owing to the trees being killed back by the
cold weather. The variety commonly grown
is that from Los Angeles county. Trees in
his part of Solano county are not injured by
tbs sun; they are cut back by the frost.
MIR. West thought the young branches died
back from other caus Ell than frost, sometim s
from shallow soil, lack of water or from other
reason. He had seen instances of that in
Los Angeles county.
A very interesting lecture was delivered by
DIR. w. P. Gibbons, of Alameda, on vegeta-
BILE growth, beginning with the cell structure
and tracing upward to the higher forms. Large
diagrams drawn from microscopic observation
were used to illustrate his topic. which rem
dered it easily understood and highly in.
struct;ve