Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report: at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
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Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report: at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
Northern Nut Growers Association -- Periodicals; Nut trees -- Periodicals; Nuts -- Periodicals
My Persian walnut, heartnut and Japanese walnut think it is spring too
quick, and every year they burst out and grow about so long, and then
they fall down and die from freezing, and then they grow out, and this
time of the year you look at them and you say, "That's a beautiful
tree," But they freeze just enough to get the fruit each year.
Mr. McDaniel came by last spring a year ago and left with me a little
scion of a Carpathian walnut, the Bayer selection. I wasn't present,
but he left it with my lady and suggested to my lady that I would know
what to do with it. I put it on a common black walnut grafted about so
high, and it is ten feet high now growing nicely, but this spring I
noticed that it, too, thought the spring was here before it was here. I
don't know how it is going to bear. I may have to take it out on top of
the hill and re-graft it on a high place where it has more air drainage.
Of the Chinese chestnut, I planted about a hundred, but I planted them
in a cut-over woodland that was full of native chestnut sprouts. You
know how the chestnut sprouts will do. They grow up and blight out and
die down, and another sprout comes from the stump. They have been doing
that for 30 years over in my part of the country. I planted these
chestnuts purposely in that grove where there was lots of blight. Out of
that hundred I have eight trees that are alive. The rest of them have
died from blight. They are bearing very nicely, but I haven't learned
how to care for those fruits so that they are good a long period of
time. Someone just told me that you had someone on the program this
morning who would tell us that. It is a very interesting subject for me.
And the Thomas walnut is a nice black walnut. The trees are a little bit
peculiar about their bearing; sometimes they bear heavily and again they
forget to bear. The Stabler doesn't bear at all for me. I just know they
are Stablers because someone told me so. I have them labeled. I have
Creitz black walnut. I got five from TVA four or five years ago, and
they just literally bear themselves to death. They're about so high and
bear every year, very nice nuts. I will have to pull the walnuts off
long enough to make them grow up and make real trees. I think they are
going to be all right.
Mr. Chairman, I am not an expert. I use my hobby to keep from bothering
about the troubles that I have with other things, and when I get mad at
a neighbor I go to playing on my trees, and it gets me well. I recommend
it as a very soothing hobby.
Now, some day we will make a business out of tree crops when we in
Tennessee get the bugs out of it and get them so we will have the right
varieties to produce. I am not satisfied with the Thomas. Someone
suggested it was a wonderful nut. I am not satisfied with it. We need a
better walnut than the Thomas. But it's the best I have.
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