64, LUTHER BURBANK 



The phenomenal growth of these hybrid trees 

 continued year after year. The tree so far out- 

 stripped all competitors in the matter of growth 

 that it might fairly be said to represent a new 

 type of vegetation. 



On this account, and in recognition of sundry 

 other anomalies, I named them Paradox. 



At sixteen years of age these trees were sixty 

 feet in height and as much in breadth of 

 branches, the trunk being two feet in diameter 

 at about four feet from the ground. Meantime 

 English walnuts on the opposite side of the 

 street averaged only eight or nine inches in 

 diameter at thirty-two years of age, and had a 

 spread of branches only about one-fourth that 

 of the youthful Paradox. 



In addition to its quality of rapid growth, the 

 Paradox has wide-spreading branches with a 

 tendency to droop. It makes a beautiful shade 

 tree. The leaves are of extraordinary length, 

 sometimes measuring three feet, although usually 

 only about half that. Another curious charac- 

 teristic is that the foliage has a delicious apple- 

 like fragrance, of which the foliage of the parent 

 tree gives no suggestion. 



These anomalies of growth and foliage show 

 the mingling of racial strains. A further result 

 of this mingling is shown in the fact that the 



