A couple of quotations:

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
As told by John F. Kennedy

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
Thomas Fuller

Walnut Trees

The walnut tree is a large, handsome, long-lived deciduous tree which grows slowly to about 15m tall and is wide-spreading. Walnut is the common name for more than twenty species of deciduous trees in the walnut family, Juglandaceae. The fruit has an outer leathery husk and an inner hard and furrowed stone, or nut.

mature walnut tree

Walnut trees are grown from specially selected cultivars grafted onto a robust root stock (usually American Black Walnut or a walnut hybrid). While some isolated walnut trees grown from seed may produce satisfactory crops walnut trees grown from seed usually produce trees with only a few walnuts worth collecting. As with other fruiting trees, such as apples, the very rare variant may produce a "Granny Smith", but don't count on it. It is a waste of time trying to propagate from fresh walnuts. Few will germinate and, if they do, the progeny are unlikely to produce usable nuts, something you will find out too late some years after planting.

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