500 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



formed, filling the shell eompletely. The tree comes out medium late, 

 midway between the Placentia and the Franquette. The growth is 

 thrifty, although the tree ultimately does not become very large. The 

 nuts are harvested early in the x?l\. It is a good bearer and comes into 

 bearing early. Like all late varieties, it is fairly immune to blight. 

 This variety seems well adapted to hot sunny regions and light dry soil. 

 It is a very good variety although the nuts are small. 



Eureka. 



The Eureka variety originated in a seedling tree at Fullerton, Cali- 

 fornia, from nuts obtained near the Meek place, Hayward, California. 

 The desirable quality of this variety was first appreciated by Fischer 

 and Ware of Garden Grove. The nut is of large size, decidely elon- 

 gated, with parallel side^ apes and base of equal breadth or a little 

 thicker at the apex, rather rectangular or square in end view. It has 

 quite a smooth surface and the sutural ridges are not prominent. They 

 are very uniform in size and easily distinguished from any other 

 variety. The shell is rather hard, medium thick, heavy and very well 

 sealed. The meat is white, plump and easily extracted after cracking, 

 averaging 45 to 50 per cent o^ total weight. "While the shell is extra 

 heavy, the flavor is very good. The growth is extremely vigorous and 

 rapid, making a large tree with lieavy and abundant foliage, and has a 

 characteristic of growing its nuts in and under the leaves, thus protect- 

 ing them from the sun. In first looking at a tree it would seem a poor 

 bearer, but when you get under the tree and look up through the foliage 

 you will find it heavily loaded. This tree comes out in the spring, 

 about the same time as the Mayette, the buds beginning to swell about 

 April 10th. It harve'its its nuts early in the fall before the Mayette 

 and considerably earlier than the Franquette. It is an early and heavy 

 bearer, surpassing all other varieties in this respect. From my obser- 

 vations it is the /iiost blight resistant of any of the walnuts, not only 

 because it come'j out late in the spring, but also I presume on account of 

 its extreme vigor. It actually resists the blight. The Eureka has 

 scarcely a touch of blight. I do iiot believe there is any variety of 

 walnut tbat is not touched lightly by it under the blight conditions. 

 While tAe late blooming varieties are resistant in dry localities, in most 

 districts and under poor soil conditions they are cometimes touched. 



The Eureka is naturally free from perforation, probably on account 

 of its strong shell. It is also free from sunburn on account of its 

 abundant foliage and thick husk, as well as bearing the nuts under and 

 among its foliage. It comes nearer to filling the requirements of an 

 ideal walnut than any of the other varieties. It should, however, be 

 grown on heavy soil with good moisture conditions. As the tree is 

 such a vigorous grower and heavy bearer, without sufficient moisture 

 and nutrition it would be impossible for it to be sustained and produce 

 large crops of No. 1 nuts. 



The leading varieties for Southern California are the Placentia, Neff 's 

 Prolific, El Monte, and Ware's Prolific. For Central and Northern 

 California the Eureka is undoubtedly, all things considered, the best 

 variety on heavy soil with good moisture conditions. Then come May- 

 ette, Franquette, and Concord, these being better on the lighter soils 

 than the Eureka. 



