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extensive variation, it has been possible to select 

 trees of even more rapid growth than the second 

 generation hybrids, and the field seems to be 

 open for the production, through selection in 

 successive generations, of trees of still wider 

 diversity of form and growth. Curljusly enough 

 the wood of the Paradox walnut is exceedingly 

 hard, even harder and more close-grained than 

 that of any other walnut. This is surprising in 

 view of the rapid growth of the tree. Ordinarily 

 trees that grow rapidly have soft wood, as every 

 cabinetmaker knows. 



The Paradox further justifies its name by 

 producing a wood that has great firmness of 

 texture (superior in this respect to all other 

 walnuts) and is well adapted to take on a 

 cabinet finish. 



I had planted a row of these trees on one side 

 of an eighty-foot street here in Santa Rosa, and, 

 after making a few years' growth, the street 

 was made impassable and the trees had to be 

 removed. 



All in all the production of the Paradox 

 hybrid, and the development of a race of hard- 

 wood trees of exceedingly rapid growth, consti- 

 tutes a genuine triumph in tree culture. A tree 

 that grows to the proportions of a handsome 

 shade tree and furnishes material for the cabinet- 



