Investigate every good nut tree you hear about.  Very good results may come from this.  You don’t know what you may learn by doing so.  If you will ask about it every time you hear of a good nut tree, good will be accomplished.  We are going to keep on finding these trees for the next twenty-five years.  Will you help the process along?

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MR. POMEROY:  In the smaller towns, where the grocery men buy of the boys, if they will ask them about the trees from which they get good nuts you will locate many good trees.

MR. LITTLEPAGE:  I understand in California they have been planting walnut trees for thirty to forty years but have never yet agreed on the matter of varieties.  One of the very practical questions before this association is the determination of the best varieties to set.  I would like to hear from some of the members on this question of varieties.

MR. RUSH:  I would like to say a word about this matter.  We cannot be too severe on quality.  We might ask ourselves today what is the matter with the peach crop.  The physical changes and conditions are responsible not only for the peach crop, but the nut crop as well.  The weather has unfortunate effects on certain varieties of the walnut.  So we must make allowance for weather conditions.

MR. LITTLEPAGE:  Excuse me for butting in so often.  I should like to ask Mr. Rush a question.  I highly respect his judgment.  If he were planting a walnut orchard of 500 trees in the latitude between Philadelphia and Washington, I should like to know what varieties he would plant and in what proportion?

MR. RUSH:  Well, that is a question that would require a little consideration.  Now we have some very good varieties.  You have a very good variety known as the Holden.  I would like to know more of it.  One I would choose would be the Nebo, and another originating on my place, and called the Rush, is productive and good quality and a most excellent pollenizer.  We have another fine walnut in Adams County, introduced by John Garretson, from California.  Then we have other types, the Lancaster, and the Alpine.  Hall, in Erie County is noted for its good size, not strictly a commercial nut.  Something like the Holden, Garretson and Rush Parisienne are my favorite varieties.

MR. LITTLEPAGE:  I think we are getting some really valuable information now.  We must plant the best varieties we have.  I think we might start with Mr. Rush’s list and have the varieties analyzed.  I think this will be of use when we are called upon to advise people.

THE SECRETARY:  If I were going to make a choice of the varieties of walnuts, I should name the Franquette, Mayette and Parisienne.  Mr. Rush says that his Rush variety is practically a Parisienne.  The Garretson walnuts seem to be of these varieties.  These have been producing good crops of nuts.  It is my opinion that at this time these are the most promising varieties for use in the East.