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Paris. The nut is small, and has the shape of the English walnut, but the 

 furrows of the Black walnut; it is darker than the English and lighter 

 than the Black. It can hardly be called an improvement on the Black wal- 

 nut; surely it is not on the English. It is a very odd sort, having no com- 

 mercial value whatever. We have fruited this cross-bred walnut for the 

 last seven years, and find that either as a family or market nut this cross- 

 bred variety is entirely worthless. It must be regarded and propagated, 

 therefore, simply as an ornamental varietv. 



*Weepirui Wabrut — A new and very curious kind of walnut, highly orna- 

 mental, the branches drooping down like those of the weeping-willow. We 

 have had limbs on some of our weeping walnuts growing to eight feet through 

 the summer, drooping straight down, with the ends dragging on the ground, 

 and even trailing on it to a length of twelve to twenty inches. The nut is 

 of fair size, oblong, thin-shelled, and of good quality. It looks to be a very 

 abundant bearer. 



Rivera Hard-Shell (Plate XI, Fig. 7). Rivera Soft-Shell (Plate X, Fig. 8). 



*Lacini(decl, or Ash-Lcavcd — The foliage of this kind of walnut is so deli- 

 cate, so finely cut up, that it makes of it a most graceful ornamental tree, 

 worthy to be planted conspicuously in the garden or front yard. The nut, 

 besides, is exceedingly pretty, of fair size, round, with a very smooth shell 

 and sweet kernel. The tree is claimed to be an abundant bearer. 



*Parmenne — Large, excellent, starts late in spring. This beautiful nut, 

 also one of the finest for dessert and market, was originated in the southeast 

 of France, and not in the neighborhood of Paris, as its name would imply: 

 its beauty made it called Parisienne, in honor of the capital of France. The 

 nut is large, bi^oader at the small end than the Mayette and Franquette, and 

 has a very pretty shape. It is as late as the Mayette. and as desirable for 

 market. 



•'A most beautiful nut ; one of the largest and best for dessert, broad and 

 large, with full-fleshed kernel. Bears early and regular.'' — Rock. 



* Alpine, or Wonder of the Alps — A new and very rare variety; originated 

 not long ago in the Alps Mountains, in France. Next to the Mammoth, it 

 is the largest walnut grown on my place. Though the shell looks a kind of 

 rough, it is perfectly soft and thin, and the meat sweet and filling well the 

 shell. 



*Lan^'ray — A newly originated variety. Very pretty nut, oval in shape, 

 of fair size and first quality. 



*Poor'man — A new kind, of recent introduction. 



Fertile (Plate XI, Fig. 1). 



* Pra'pariurienx, or Fertile. First Generation — This variety was introduced 

 into the state by me, in the winter of 1870-71, and in my grounds, two thou- 

 sand six hundred feet up in the Sierra, are the first trees of that kind that 

 ever produced fruit in this state. Described as follows: The Proeparturiens 

 was originated in France, in 1828 ; from the fact that it first bore nuts while 

 being but two years old, the Latin name of Proeparturiens was given to it 

 from Paiiuriens, bearing, Prir, before — bearing before the usual time. It 



♦Described by :Mr. Felix Gillet. 



