A THirty-Six IncH Walnut Tree
in Twelve Years' Time
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TKe BurbanK Royal Walnut
TO "I" III- breeder of nrw plant all
llniiK teem posilhlc.
It i not alone that he can
create new flavors in fruiu lie
ran lengthen their hrariilK eaou moro
nearly In cntrespitml with the market for
t It r in ; il I nut alone till) I hr run add
crnt ntnl nr ami color to llnwcr lie
can 111 thrill to mow in toils in which
they never bcfoie have unnui; it i not
alone that he can add to tin' food value
Mtlil improve the taste uf vegetables he
rati make them ripen earlier or later,
alinoit at will.
DoiiiK these thiiiKH eoiiolantly, il ap
peared to l.uther HurlMiik that the wal
tiut tree, America's most valuable bun
her tree, hail a ililferent kind of fault
Ilia t it look too Iuiii; to mature.
So he not ahont to devise means of
luMeiuiiK its Krowih.
His plan was, by emu hrcrdiuK, to
produce thousands of new walnut trees
and front lhec to clrct, ever mid always
those that showed the urates! tendency
to ipiick growth.
After many experiments liy joining to
Krther the native California Mack wal
nut and the ohl-fakluoned New KiikI.iiiiI
black walnut, Mr. lhirli.nik produced ihu
new hvbrid. or ctns hreed, khown aboe,
which he named the Royal.
This tree had a thirty-i-iuch Birth
when twelve year old.
At seventeen j ear after plauiiiii; from
the M-fd it looked a shown above.
It was eighty feet in height. Its
branches spread full) ivi'iil) live feet.
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And the trunk wa out rwiu tw
inches in girth at the height of a man
head.
The walnut tree a Nature planned it
is slow to grow. At thirty-five jc.irs it
will bland .scarcely more than twenty
feet IiikIi with an eiKhteen-iiieh Kirth,
Thus it will he ceu that h Minplc
cross hrecdiiiK nutl selection I titlier llur
hank has produced a walnut trie which
Krows right times a fat as the walnut
trees which Nature Kivrs us a tpuk
growing w'aluut with which to replenish
our fal disappearing forot.
On the following pone i shown mi il-lu-tratiou
of (he I'nii.lied limilicr of the
IturlKink Unynl walnut more like iim
hogany than any other North American
wood,