In 1950 at the annual meeting the Northern Nut Growers Association made me an Honorary Member of the Association.
In 1951 the Association held a contest and the "Crath" Carpathians won most of the prizes.
Culture of Crath's Carpathian English Walnut Trees
1. Propagation by seeds
Pick up the largest and heaviest nuts from a certain tree. Dry them in a windy place, but not in the sun. Gather the nuts into a jute bag and hang for the winter in a dry and cold place protected from squirrels.
Around May 14th put the nuts into a vessel with lukewarm water, soak about one week.
Prepare a bed of rich soil manured previously with horse manure. The land should not be of a wet kind. Plant the nuts in rows, 6 inches nut from nut, and two feet, row from row. Protect your nursery from squirrels.
In a week or two the nuts should come up.
Keep the nursery free from weeds. It will protect the seedling from the buffalo tree hoppers. If the signs of the bacterial disease are detected spray the seedlings at once.
For the first winter leave the seedlings as they are in the field. The next spring dig them up, every one. Cut off the leading root of each plant and transplant the seedlings again in rows a foot apart seedling from seedling and two feet row from row.