Third Biennial Report Of The State Board Of Horticulture Of The State Of California For The Thirty Eighth And Thirty Ninth Fiscal Years 1888 Classic Reprint PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... the walnut gives only hopes, so to speak, for its yield is yet so small that its value can hardly be reckoned; it is only from thirty to sixty years that this tree can offer each ear 0. product sufficient to increase the income of the landlord. it takes a century, an over, before the wood is good to be used in the arts." "Walnut trees are spoken of that bear, in good years, 50,000 to 100,000 nuts; such trees are truly very rare, and their trunks are not less than 15 to 20 feet in circumference." Frank E. Kellogg, of _Goleta, letter of March 12, 1896. 1" Hon. Russell Heath, in essay before Eleventh State Fruit-Growers' Convention, 1689. t Maison Rustique, Vol. 2, Chapter XII. Maison Rustique, Vol. 2, p. 143. Showing development of male flowers, or staminate catkins. with the fir_st period of growth two weeks before the appearance of the female flowers or pisullales. Showing both staminate or male catkins and pistillates or female flowers in full bloom, having ti'pH68.I'8d together, or nearly so. The male organs or catkins emanate from the bud-cells in the nxils of the leaves on twigs of the preceding summer, and the female flowers at the terminals-f the new growth, with the embryo nuts. Showing male flowers or siamina'e catkins after blooming, and the female flowers or pistillates (mid embryo nuts) ab-ve, just in bloom, having made their appearance two weeks later, and ready for fertilization. " In the village of Beachemwell, in Norfolk, may be seen a walnut tree (Ju lam regia) which spreads its 'softly swelling hills_' of leaves over the church-yard 0 All Saints Church, now in ruin, as if it sou ht to mingle leafy dust and human ashes. When this tree is arrayed in all its...