04 LUTHER BURBAXK 



The phenomenal growth of tliese hybrid trees 

 continued year after year. The tree so far out- 

 stripped aU 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 dianiet<r 

 at about four feet from the ground. M^antin> 

 English walnuts on the opposite sid< 

 street averaged only eight or nine incit 

 diameter at thirt>'-two years of age, and liau 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 

 tendency to droop. It makes a beautiful shad 

 tree. The leaves are of extraordinary lengtl 

 sometimes measuring three feet, although usuall 

 only about half that. Another curious chara« 

 tr? istic is that the foliage has a delicious appl' 

 like fragrance, of which tlie foliage of the paren. 

 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 tfe 



