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MISCELLANEOUS AND LESS PROMINENT VARIETIES. 



The following is intended to complete as fully as possible a list and 

 description of all the walnut varieties of any importance in California. 

 Many of them are old French varieties which have not proven worthy 

 of extensive commercial planting. Others are varieties not yet fully 

 tested and most of the remainder have been discarded or never become 

 prominent for various reasons. Bearing trees of most of the varieties 

 in this list which are of any importance may be found in the State. 

 At the California Nursery Company, Niles, there is a collection of most 

 of the French and some other varieties; S. F. and F. A. Leib, of San 

 Jose, have a large miscellaneous collection; Mr. Ely Hutchinson, of 

 Concord, has a great many in bearing ; Dr. W. W. Fitzgerald, of Stock- 

 ton, has younger trees of many different kinds, and there are various 

 other places in the north where, collectively, authentic specimens may 

 be found of bearing trees of almost all the varieties which we mention. 

 In the San Joaquin Valley the Fancher Creek Nursery Company has 

 bearing trees of a number of varieties. In the south there are several 

 of the French varieties on the old Experiment Station grounds near 

 Pomona, and our Whittier Laboratory has a collection of practically 

 every important variety growing either at Whittier or on the Pasadena 

 City farm near Alhambra. 



ACME. 



Introduced by F. C. Willson, of Sunnyvale, California, in 1910. An 

 extra large nut of Bijou origin. The nut is fairly smooth, rather elon- 

 gated, larger at the apex than at the base and almost square in end 

 view. The shell is quite heavy and fairly well filled with meat, which 

 forms less than 40 per cent of the total weight. The variety is not 

 apparently of any special value for general commercial purposes. 



BARTHERA. 



Introduced from France by Felix Gillet in 1871. Of no apparent 

 value in California. 



A BIJOU (Gant). 



A French variety, noteworthy for the extremely large size of the 

 nuts. Nuts very rough and poorly filled with meat and of no commercial 

 value, save as a curiosity. Bearing trees are quite abundant in the 

 State. Numerous Bijou seedlings are to be found in California, many 

 of which have much smoother and better nuts than those of the parent. 

 See "Acme," "Klondyke," and " Wonder." 



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