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Cracking Quality. 



Shell hard, rather thick, heavy and very strongly sealed. Never 

 splitting open in handling and not easily cracked with the fingers. 

 Meat easily extracted after cracking. 



Pellicle. 



Straw color, light and attractive. 



Meat. 



Full and heavy in good specimens. Averages 45 to 50 per cent of 

 total weight of nut, while the shell is extra heavy. 



Flavor. 



Excellent. Particularly sweet. 



TREE. 



Foliation Period. 



Medium late. About midway between the early blooming varieties 

 like Chase and Placentia Perfection and the very late ones, such as 

 Franquette. A little later than Concord. Earlier in the north than 

 in the south. 



Growth. 



Extremely vigorous and rapid, especially in nursery and top grafts. 

 Young trees form a few large leaders, with few fruit spurs until the 

 fourth or fifth year. The smooth bark of the trunks of young trees has 

 a yellowish color. The bark on the trunk of the older trees is cracked 

 or furrowed up and down in a manner characteristic of the Kaghazi 

 type. 



Foliage. 



Very thrifty and abundant, shading the nuts well. 



Harvest Season. 



A little later than that of the earliest varieties, considerably earlier 

 than Franquette. 



Precocity. 



Not marked in southern California. About two years later than 

 Chase, Placentia Perfection, etc., in coming into bearing. Experience 

 in the northern part of the State indicates that Eureka is more preco- 

 cious there than in the south. 



Production In Older Trees. 



Can only be judged from the original tree. This was said to be 

 averaging somewhat over 200 pounds of nuts per year when sixteen 

 to eighteen years of age, before being heavily cut for scions. The tree 

 is positively known to us to have borne this amount in at least one or 

 two years. From the oldest propagated trees of the variety, Mr. E. G. 

 Ware obtained a few nuts during the fifth year after planting and as 

 high as 20 pounds on some trees during the seventh year. In Mr. C. W. 



