LUTHER BURBANK 



might be expected to grow from these seeds. The 

 statement, in view of the date when it was printed, 

 has somewhat exceptional interest in the light of 

 later developments, so I quote it here. 



It was as follows : 



"The six beautiful specimens of this hybrid 

 growing on my home place have been objects of 

 admiration to all who have seen them. 



"Young trees could have been sold at almost 

 any price, but, having no time to raise them, offer 

 this season's crop of nuts which will be a great 

 surprise in producing about one-third of a new 

 type of the broad-leaved Persian walnuts, one- 

 third of a new type of the California black walnut, 

 and about one-third combined, as in the original 

 tree." 



The "original tree" in question was, of course, 

 the hybrid called the Paradox, produced by cross- 

 ing the California walnut and the Persian walnut. 

 So the seedlings, the character of which is pre- 

 dicted in the paragraph just quoted, would of 

 course represent second generation hybrids from 

 this cross. 



I make the quotation here, carefully specifying 

 the date at which the original was printed, because 

 there is a certain interest in knowing that tests 

 made prior to this time with the seeds of the hy- 

 brid walnut had clearly revealed to me the fact 



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