[Sidenote: =Examples of Hardiness=] As an illustration of the hardiness of the English Walnut, there is a tree at Red Hill, Virginia, which was brought from Edinburgh, Scotland, when six months old, planted in New York, where it remained three years, then removed to Staunton, Virginia, and after two years taken to Red Hill. In consequence of so many changes, the tree at first died back, but is now thrifty--twenty feet high; trunk, eight inches in diameter at the ground. During several severe Winters, the thermometer fell so low that some peach trees and grape vines growing near English Walnuts on the Pomeroy farm near Lockport, N.Y. were killed, while the nut trees were not in the least injured. [Illustration] _The English Walnut at its Best._ A smooth, soft-shelled nut. Meat full, with sweet, hickory-nut flavor. Nuts fall clean and free from outside shuck. Frosts harvest the nuts--in October. They are self-pruning. Require no care after arrival at bearing age. An alkali sap keeps scales and pests from the trees. Blossoms immune from late frosts, as they start late. Pistillate and Staminate blossoms mature at same time in the best varieties, insuring perfect fertilization and productivity. Bears more regularly than other nut trees. Bears heavier crops the older it becomes, unlike other fruit trees the size and quality of whose fruit degenerates with age. _Interesting Figures about the English Walnut._ In Spain and Southern France there are trees believed to be more than 300 years old which bear from fifteen to eighteen bushels of nuts each, annually. In Whittier, California, is a famous tree which has been leased for a term of years at $500. Orchards seven and eight years old bring all the way from $1,000 to $2,000 per acre and are a fine investment, yielding from 15 to 125 per cent. according to age. The total cost of producing and harvesting an English Walnut crop is about one and one-half cents a pound. [Illustration] _Kernels of Fact about the English Walnut._ The United States consumes more than 50,000,000 pounds a year. The United States imports about 27,000,000 pounds a year. The price is advancing steadily with the demand. Besides being profitable, the English Walnut is a clean, highly ornamental shade tree. The leaves remain on the tree until late in the Fall, not littering up the ground during the Summer. English Walnuts are not only a rare table delicacy, but may be utilized for catsup, pickles and oil. One pound of walnut meat equals eight pounds of steak in nutriment--and is a far more healthful food. _What Luther Burbank has to say:_