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The Division of Pomology of the Department of Agriculture 

 gives the following list; but in almost every neighborhood where the 

 Black Walnut grows some good varieties may be found (286). 



SOME SELECT NATIVE VARIETIES. 



Gordon. Large, cubical, somewhat conical at each end; shell 

 medium in thickness; kernel light-colored, plump; quality very good. 

 The original tree has now a stem three feet in diameter. Virginia. 



Mirza. Large, compressed; shell thin; kernel large; quality 

 good. Original tree now forty inches in diameter. Ohio. 



Missouri. Size medium; form oval; kernel large and plump, and 

 about as good as English walnut in purity of flavor. Missouri. 



Peanut. Small to medium; pyriform; shell thin; kernel entire 

 at the large end of the nut; quality very good. Ohio. 



Peanut. Taylor. 



Taylor. Quite large, quadrangular, pointed; shell thin; kernel 

 large, and coming out in halves; meat white; quality very good. Ohio. 

 Thomas. Large, oblate, somewhat pointed at base, and still more 

 at apex; shell quite thin; flavor sweet, rich, very good. Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



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In Section 288 some notes are given relative to the value of timber 

 and the value of select varieties of the nuts. As with the Black 

 Walnut it is variable in size and thinness of shell of the nuts, and, in 

 some cases, the select varieties have been locally propagated and 



