Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1915 — GRAFTS AN ENGLISH WALNUT [ARTICLE]

GRAFTS AN ENGLISH WALNUT

Industry Is Revolutionized by the Discovery of an Arizona Naturalist Tucson, Artz. —The walnut industry of Arizona is being revolutionized by the discovery of C. R. Biederman, a naturalist, that the English walnut can be grafted on the native Arizona tree and made to bear the new fruit the following year. Not only is the fruit richer and of more commercial value, but the character of the grafted trees is changed so that they are preferable to other kinds for the purpose of beautification. The state commissioner of highways of Missouri, having learned of the possibilities of the tree, has planned to get Arizona plants to place along public highways of Missouri.