THE ROYAL WALNUT 



SPEEDING THE GROWTH OF A 

 LEISURELY TREE 



IF on visiting my grounds you were to notice 

 two trees, one ten times as large as the other, 

 growing side by side, you would perhaps be 

 surprised to be told that the two are of the same 

 age and grew from seed of the same parent. And 

 it perhaps would not greatly clarify the matter 

 in your mind to be told that these are varying 

 individuals of a remarkable hybrid known as the 

 Paradox Walnut. 



But probably your interest would be aroused 

 in a tree that could show such diversity of 

 progeny. 



The tree in question was developed more than 

 thirty-five years ago. One of its parents was 

 the native California black walnut tree; the 

 other parent was the European tree usually 

 called the English walnut, but with somewhat 

 greater propriety spoken of as the Persian or 



soft-shell walnut. 



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