240 THE XUT CULTURIST. 



While I do not suppose that these Oriental walnuts 

 will .ever become of any considerable commercial value, 

 they are worth planting for shade and ornamental trees. 

 They are rather precocious, coming into bearing at an 

 early age, and the nuts are not only edible, but will 

 always be an acceptable addition to the unimportant 

 although agreeable household supplies. 



Persian Walnuts. Juglans regia, Linn. Royal 

 Walnut, Madeira Xut, English Walnut, French Walnut, 

 Chile Walnut, etc. Leaflets five to nine, oval, smooth, 

 pointed, slightly serrate ; fruit round or slightly oval ; 

 husk thin, green, of a leathery texture, becoming brittle 

 and cleaving from the nut when ripe and dry; nut 

 roundish-oval, smallest at the top ; shell smooth, with 

 slight indentations, thin, two-valved, readily parting at 

 the seams; kernel large, wrinkled and corrugated, the 

 two lobes separated below with a thin, papery partition, 

 but united at the top ; sweet, oily, and generally 

 esteemed. 



This species has been in cultivation many centuries, 

 and in different countries and climates, and under such 

 variable conditions that many of the varie- 

 ties have departed widely from the normal 

 type. There are now an almost innumer- 

 able number of varieties, varying greatly in 



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FKUITED g i ze an ^ form. Some are not larger than a 

 WALNUT, good-sized pea, as seen in the " Small 

 Fruited Walnut" (Fig. 87), while others are nearly as 

 large as a man's fist, as in the thick-shelled or "Gibbous 

 Walnut" (Fig. 92), while in others the nut is greatly 

 elongated, as in the "Barthere Walnut" (Fig. 88), and 

 hundreds of other intermediate forms. There are also 

 varieties that bloom early in spring, others late. Some 

 are very hardy, others quite tender in cold climates. 

 There are also dwarf and tall-growing, as well as the 

 precocious and tardy fruiting varieties. But very few 



