WALNUTS AND OTHER 

 EXPERIMENTS 



MENDEL'S THEORIES IN PRACTICE 



THE hybrid walnuts, already known to the 

 reader as the Paradox and the Royal were 

 first publicly announced in my catalogue 

 called "New Creations in Fruits and Flowers," 

 in June, 1893. 



The hybrid walnuts themselves were then five 

 or six years old and the Royal had borne fruit, 

 so that a photograph of its large-sized nut could 

 be given. The Paradox, on the other hand, 

 although it had flowered for several seasons, had 

 produced no fruit. It was supposed, therefore, 

 that it would be impossible to reproduce this 

 hybrid from seed. 



In subsequent years, however, the Paradox 

 proved its capacity to produce fertile fruit, 

 although it has never been a free bearer. In my 

 supplementary catalogue of the year 1898 I was 

 able to offer seeds of the Paradox for sale, and 

 to make a statement as to the manner of seed- 



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