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A Sixteen Year Old Paradox 



At sixteen years of age, Mr. Burbank's new Paradox 



walnut trees were sixty Jeet in height and as much in breadth 



oj branches — the trunk being two Jeet in diameter at about Jour Jeet 



Jrom the ground. Meantime English walnuts on the opposite 



side oJ the street averaged only eight or nine inches 



in diameter at thirty-two years oJ age, and 



had a spread oJ branches only about 



one quarter that oJ the 



youthjul Paradox. 



