436 SELECT VARIETIES OP FRUITS. 



nut rather small. We have plants two feet high bearing 

 well; kernel good. 



4. Frizzled, Remarkable for its curious frizzled husk, 

 a good bearer, and one of the finest flavored. 



5. Red-Skinned. One of the old standard sorts of the 

 English growers, distinguished by the bright red or crim- 

 son skin of the kernel ; medium size, egg-shaped, shell 

 thick, flavor good. 



6. White, This is also an old standard sort ; the kernel 

 is a yellowish white. Both this and the preceding have 

 long husks. 



SECTION 21. WALNUTS. 



The English or Madeira Nut (Juglans regia). This 

 is a native of Persia. A lofty, spreading tree, with pin- 

 nated leaves like the butternut, and the fruit nearly as 

 large. Great quantities are annually imported, and sold 

 in the fruit shops. 



The tree is tender while young, the ends of the 

 young shoots being injured in winter at the north, but as 

 it grows older it becomes hardier. It is produced from 

 seed or by grafting. There are many varieties of it culti- 

 vated abroad, few of which have yet been introduced 

 here on account of the little attention given to this class 

 of fruits. Is now being extensively planted in California, 

 where it succeeds well. 



The Dwarf Prolific Walnut (Juglans pr&parturiens) 



is a French variety, most desirable for the garden. It 

 bears at the age of three years from the seed, and often at 

 the hight of two to three feet. 



Our native sorts, the Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)^ 

 the Butternut (Juglans cinerea), the Hickory-Nut 

 (Gary a), and its varieties, are all well-known trees that 



