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bears a nut of fine cracking quality. Some of these nuts were sent to 

 our secretary, Mr. C. A. Reed, and to Mr. J. F. Jones of Lancaster. 

 Both of these gentlemen reported favorably on the flavor of the kernel 

 and particularly on the cracking quality. This tree is on the property 

 of Mr. Claude Mitchell. 



A few heartnut trees are also growing nicely near the city of 

 Montreal on the estate of T. B. MacCauley, President of the Sun Life 

 Assurance Company of Canada. 



The hybrids between the butternut and the Japanese walnuts grow 

 even more rapidly than either of the pr'.rent types. One of these hy- 

 brid trees growing near Grimsby attained a height of thirty-eight feet 

 ;:nd a trunk diameter of eleven inches in nine years from the planting 

 of the nut. The hybrid between Juglans sieboldiana and the butter- 

 nut appears to be quite hardy, having been grown and fruited near 

 Quebec city. 



Several interesting and rather valuable hybrids between the heart- 

 nut and the butternut liave been found near Vineland and Jordan Sta- 

 tion in Ontario. The best of these hybrids bears a nut that is almost a 

 perfect combination of the characteristics of the two parents. The 

 nut is nearly as large as an average butternut and has the form of the 

 heartnut. The shell is rougher than the heartnut but not as rough as 

 the butternut. It can be easily split in halves and contains a kernel 

 of heartnut shape with a flavor decidedly like the butternut. The 

 husk has the stickiness of the butternut and, like the heartnut, it may 

 be easily removed. 



This tree has made a rapid growth, being about thirty-eight feet 

 tall and over twelve inches in diameter at twelve years from planting. 



The Persian (English) Walnut (Juglans regia) 



This member of the walnut family succeeds best in sections having 

 moderate summer temperatures with a good rainfall, and comparatively 

 mild winters. It has been sparingly planted throughout the Niagara 

 district, and appears to thrive very well. In southern Ontario there 

 are about 2.50 seedling trees of bearing age beside several hundred 

 more young trees which have not borne nuts. Approximately seventy- 

 five percent of the bearing trees are found in the Niagara district and 

 the remainder are chiefly in the Lake Erie counties. 



