THE PRODUCTION 



OF A 

 QUICK-GROWING WALNUT 



THE BURBANK ROYAL AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS 



MY hybrid walnuts, already known to the 

 reader as the Paradox and the Royal, 

 were first publicly announced in my 

 catalog 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, al- 

 though it was never a free bearer. And in my 

 supplementary catalog 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 seedlings that 



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