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.
