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present groves composed of trees of as gocd average quality as the best 

 of these oldest trees, the walnut industry would be at present in far 

 better condition than it is. 









FIG. 20. Felix Gillet, introducer of the best French walnuts into California 

 and originator of most of the French seedling varieties. 



As plantings and the number of bearing trees of the Santa Barbara 

 Soft Shell type multiplied, particularly thoughtful growers here and 

 there began to notice the variation in the trees and to consider the possi- 

 bility of propagating from the best of them, both by seed and by grafting. 



