California Walnut Industry

Author : Byron Martin Lelong
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230098791
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book California Walnut Industry; Commercial Importance, Longevity, Pollination, Varieties, Planting, Soil, Propagation, Budding, Grafting, Pruning, Harvest written by Byron Martin Lelong and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: ...part of the winter rainfall. After the spring plowing the land should be thoroughly harrowed and left. Where irrigation is practiced the orchard should be cultivated after each application of water, usually from five to seven times in the season. Where irrigation is not followed the cultivator and weedcutter should be used as often as necessary, in order to keep down the weeds that would rob the trees of their necessary moisture and plant elements. The great object of cultivation is to keep the surface soil in a loose condition and prevent the evaporation of the moisture required by the trees for their growth. Of course, where inter-tree crops are grown in the orchard, these rules will have to be modified to suit the crops." t "That the walnut will grow more luxuriantly and bear larger crops at comparatively earlier age in deep and rich bottom land, well drained, well protected, and with plenty of moisture, is an obvious fact; though there arises another question: whether it is advisable to plant walnuts--a class of trees requiring so much space and with so little regard to the nature of the soil--in our richest land so well adapted to the growing of other valuable crops that have absolutely to be raised in rich land t My experience in walnut culture, and for twenty years I have imported, propagated, and fruited the leading varieties of Europe, besides having collected a large amount of data on that subject from nut-growing countries, warrants me to say that walnut culture can be successfully carried on on the whole Pacific Coast, provided we plant none but hardy kinds; in fact, the success of walnut culture in California lies exclusively in the hardiness of the kinds to be planted." WALNUTS IN OAK LAND. There has been...