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have raised trees from any of these nuts, however, they have all been 

 quite characteristic of the rupestris type described above. The range of 

 Juglans nigra extends westward into Texas so that it would not be sur- 

 prising to find hybrids and peculiar forms there, if the various species 

 hybridize as readily in that locality as they do in California. Mr. G. A. 

 Schattenberg, of Boerne, Texas, writes as follows: 



"While I have not sufficiently investigated the matter, I have seen 

 enough to convince me that there are more than two very distinct forms 

 here. As with the pecan, hardly two trees can be found with nuts alike. 

 We collected over twenty-five bushels of nuts the past season and found 

 hardly two trees alike." 



Mr. F. T. Ramsey, of Austin, Texas, another of our correspondents, 

 writes as follows : 



"I will try to find you some of the small walnuts and mail them. 

 I do not believe that this particular walnut has been definitely men- 

 tioned by any botanist. The trees rarely have any top of any conse- 

 quence, but are inclined to throw up two or more branches near the 

 ground. They are sometimes nothing better than a big bush. In their 

 wild state they are usually found along the river banks and gravelly 

 streams in the limestone country running west from Austin. Lam- 

 passas is 70 miles from here, yet the nuts up there seem to be five or 

 six times as large as the nuts here. However, some trees here bear 

 larger nuts. There is infinite variation in the shape and size of both 

 nuts and trees, also in the time of ripening, which varies from the 

 first of August to November. Irrigation and good cultivation makes 

 them no larger. They are enormous bearers of pollen. There are a 

 few eastern black walnuts growing through this country. Upon the 

 steep sides and valleys of our rough rocky cedar mountains we have 

 a walnut that makes a large tree, but bears a nut in size just between 

 the rupestris and the black. The intermedia has a light green leaf free 

 from yellow tinge and grows slower than rupestris." 



NATIVE WALNUTS OF NEW MEXICO. 



Through correspondence we have obtained some information as to 

 native walnuts in New Mexico, and also have planted a considerable 

 number of nuts from that State. Professor E. O. Wooton, of the New 

 Mexico College of Agriculture, writes as follows: "I am sending you 

 specimens of two kinds of black walnuts obtained from this region. 

 Both kinds are obtained from relatively large trees which grow in the 

 Mogollon mountain region of this territory. Neither is Juglans rupes- 

 tris ; just what they may be I am unable to say. I have seen Juglans 

 rupestris growing and know to a certainty that the trees from which 

 these nuts came are not of that species." 



