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Title: Walnut growing in Oregon
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Cooper, Jacob Calvin, 1845-1937, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Walnut
Publisher: Portland, Or., Passenger department, Oregon railroad and navigation co., Southern Pacific company lines in Oregon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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M. Williamson, Secretary Oregon State Board of Horti-culture, in an article says: The extremely unfavorable weather of the past winter(1908-9) has been one of the best things which could have hap-pened to many heedless persons who planted walnut trees withoutfirst taking pains to learn anything about the business. Thedestruction of many young trees of the Santa Barbara type was ablessing to those who planted them, and the planters deserve nosympathy, for the warnings not to plant trees of that type havebeen ample for many years past. The fine condition of suitably located groves of walnuttrees of Franquette, Mayette and other French varieties, after awinter which proved the most trying to fruit trees of all kindswhich we have known during a long period of years, has givenfirm confidence to those who are leading in the development of thewalnut industry in Oregon. The varieties which are best adapted to culture in this stateare those which produce the finest nuts known to the world. 23
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^ ■ WALNUT GROWINO IN OREGON P*^- v *tfy^ SEEDLING WALNUTS The leading commercial orchard in the state is that of )\Ir.Thomas Prince, of Yamhill county, and is composed almost entirelyof seedling trees. The history of this orchard is best told by Mr.Prince in the following very conservative letter: About 17 years ago the Ladd Stock Farm of Yamhill, Oregon,by the advice of Mr. H. E. Dosch, then Secretary, of the OregonHorticultural Society, purchased from the late Felix Gillett,Nevada City, Cal., and planted quite a number of j^oung walnuttrees which are now in bearing. The first few years their cattlereceived first attention and the young trees were not cultivatedas much as they should have been to make good growth. Theytherefore do not grow the quantity of walnuts they would haveproduced with better cultivation. Two or three years after thisMr. Z. T. Davis, of Dundee, Oregon, also by advice of Mr. Dosch,purchased of Mr. Gillett some 500 one-year-old seedlings. Oneyear later the wri

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