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these many more were raised. Among these, two still 

 better ones appeared. After a time a tree was produced 

 which yielded nuts when only three years of age, and every 

 succeeding year its limbs were full of fine sweet nuts, which 

 were almost round. The shell was very light-colored and 

 thin. The skin covering the meat was pale yellow, almost 

 white, and contained none of the puckery tannin found in 

 the older varieties of nuts. 



This nut ripens a month or more before other walnuts 

 are ready to harvest. In the coast counties of California, 

 where there is much fog, it is sometimes subject to blight, 

 like most other walnuts, but being so early, so delicious, 

 so fine in appearance, and the trees so very productive, it 

 is a proof of what selection alone can do. 



Thousands of walnut trees are now growing which have 

 been grafted to the "Santa Rosa Soft Shell." 



The "ka-rah-ka" of the woodpecker and the "ike, ike, 

 ike" of the blue jay are sometimes yet heard in the walnut 

 trees, although the master chose for grafts those with 

 somewhat thicker shell than the first produced. 



