The morning news., 1889-03-18
Enplish Waln1ts.

The nut on our markets under ts popu-
lar name of English walnut, ry, we
think, be quite safely depended lpon to
grow successfully in all portion of the
Iower south where the black walni grows
wild, says the Mobile Register. II blacb
walnut does not grow wild in the csst pine
belt but, though not doing its best, it
grows reasonably we'll here whom lanted-
The English walnut would probablyucceed
TO about the same extent.
All the walnuts for best gro wth.equire
q land somewhat limy-one neT finds
them wild where other condition; of soil
exist The black walnut grows abadantly
on the lime laudsof the lower prais', from
the pine belt proper to the blaclprairies,
in both Alabama and Mississippi, therefore,
We would expect to find the Englh walnut
succeeding in the same localities Above
the black prairies the china, would
probably be too cold in winter fr it. We
have seen it growing and fruitig to ap-
parent perfection in Butler coury, Alaba-
ma, very near the lower line ofthe black
prairies.
The English walnuts on our larkets are
mainly grown in France and lily, France
producing by far the larges quantity
Dordonge, France, alone, over11 900 acres
are planted to these walnuts, giving an an
nual revenue of 500, 600 Thi department
of lot has 81 900 acres in walnuts, the
Loire 12, 900 acres, and so on twenty de-
partments of Southwestern Central and
southeastern France. These Walnut districts
yield, in addition to their immense quanti-
ties of nuts, a very large quntity of wal
nut wood, mostly used by abinetmakers,
gunsmiths, carriagemakers, tic. The de-
partment of Savoie alone exports annually
$4,000 worth of walnut wod.
A writer for the New Orleans Times
Democrat says one finds thesEnglish wal
nut scattered throughout Central and
Southern Europe, around, fields, on hillsides,
and in the plains, close to thu barn, on the
farm, one here and there in vineyards, in
the village graveyard, Oh the country
church plaza in the gorges of mountains,
anywhere and everywhere.
No crop is more easily gathered than that
Of the walnut, and it is ready to be gathered
after all other crops are in. Everyone likes
to gather walnuts. 1t needs no cOaxing of
children to lend helping hand, and the
women volunteer themselves for that gentle
work; for when ripe the husk breaks of,
letting the nuts fall to the ground. To
make them fall more readiIya Uuan with a
long, slender pole, striking gently on the
limbs, makes the nuts drop like hail. The
work Of gathering them IN boxes, sacks or
baskets to be carried where they can dry is
then easy. They can be stored ready for
Shipment at any time dnring the winter to
snear or distant market No insect pests,
no scale bug, no Goblin moths prey on the
walnut, attack its wood, devour its leaves
Or ruin its fruit. No need of a union
or association or even "middlemen" for
the marketing of its readily marketable
crop.
In our opinion, people living on the lime
lands referred to in the foregoing ought TO
at once begin planting English walnuts with
a somewhat liberal hand. If it is not de-
srable to risk a regular walnut grove, let
them be stuck in all the out-of-the-
way places on the plantation. Time may
come when they would much add to the
value of the property. And planting them
would certainly involve but little of either
trouble or expense. The planting would be
exactly the same as planting black walnuts,
and any good, fresh nuts sold by the grocer
Or fruit dealer would grow. The nuts
should be planted where the trees are to re-
main, as transplanting Injuries the English
oil