Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-20
ENGLISH WALNUT ON FARM
Being Grown With Profit in the East.
ern United States.

English walnuts have already been
grown to a certain extent in this
F, country, especially in California
where orchards have produced from
] $500 TO $1,000 an acre, ana they have
been tried in a few other States with
| great success.
As with apples or other fruits, the
] further north fruit is grown the
! better its flavor rs a general rule, but
! this depends somewhat upon locality
variety. soil and general environment
| Many nuts become quite astringent or
even bitter when grown in the higher
ATTITUDES, or attitudes. which would
| be practically the same thing.
1t has been generally considered that
! central New York, from Buffalo to AL
| bany. for instance. was too far north
! ana so TOO cold for succe ssful walnut
culture. Nut experts, however know
| this TO be untrue. says Country Life
| in America, for excellent nuts of this
species are TO be found growing in the
triangle bounded by Buffalo, Boston
and Philadelphia.
almost any part of the country
where there is an average temperature
climate and appropriate soil is suit
able for growing walnuts. and IL may
be said with certainty that they will
thrive wherever peaches are success
full, and require much less care. \
vcun% city man might plant half of a
50-acre farm with English walnuts at
no great expense aside from the
first cost of the farm, with the as
surance of an income from them which
will give him comfortable living
after reaching middle life.
The small farmer, too, may we'll ap-
propriate this means of providing
against the time when he cannot be
actively engaged in the field. and if
he begins when young TO clear, ferti-
lie and make nut orchards of his un-
used acres he will after a term of
years have very respectable addition
TO his other farm profits which, will
come to him almost without anw eff
fort on his part.
In fact. the time is not far distant
when few farsighted farmers in the
East and North will be earning in
comes which compare very favorably
With those of the pecan orchardists of
the South and the walnut and almond
ranchmen of the Pacific coast. AS an
instance of this DIR. Robert r. Morris.
prominent New York surgeon. hopes
that at 60 ne may retire from active
professional life with an annual in
come of s25.0eO or more from his 200
acre nut orchard near Stamford. CT.
not all Of which is planted.
Some of the American nuts grownl
BY direct production are starehy and
insipid, but most of those grown in
lightful and thin of shell. There are
several growers of these nuts, and
Niagara county, y. Y, which has for
long time been considered notable
fruit growing section, in recent years
has come to the front as a nut coun
try as well. Year by year the num-
Der of groves has been increasing
Most of The thousands of walnut
trees in this section came from seven
nuts brought there 50 years ago. In
1876 the great centennial exposition
was held in Philadelphia, and Norman
Pomercy. a Lockport farmer whose
father Daniel Pomeroy. bought his
farm from the Holland land company
in $780, attended in the autumn. The
very first morning he'swas awakened
by a rapping at the window of his
room.
His curiosity aroused, he investigat-
ed. and found the cause to be the
bro inches of tree unknown to him.
IT'S great spread of branches, which,
like the bole, We're covered with sill
very gray bark in striking contrast
with the large waxy leaves of dark
green, fascinated him as did the nuts
upon the ground underneath. TO his
surprise he found that they We're
English warnuts, and Of a better flavor
than he had ever tasted before.
At once he decided To send home by
neighbor who was returning before
himself a grip partly filed with nuts.
This neighbor had family of chill
dren who surreptitiously ate all hut
seven nuts on the way to I.ockport.
With some misgivings these Were
planted about the old homestead, and
fortunately every last one of them
decided TO become a tree.
The old parent tree in Philadelphia
is no more. The growth of the big
city pushed it into the limbo of the
past but all of the seven younger ones
are standing today 80 years old, and
are every season yielding larger crops
of the most toothsome nuts. e. Il.
Lake assistant pomologist of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, was moved to write to d. N.
Pomefoy, the present owner: AL
though small and especially suited to
confectioner's use. it is the sweetest
nut which j had had the pleasure of
sampling." 1t is not all romance, how
ever for these seven trees are doing
a really good and practical work in
the world. At the Pomeroy homestead
there are now more than 200 trees on
10 acres of land, and from them
thousands of other trees have been
grown in many different States. even
northern Michigan.
The Useful Sinnian