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It is early in foliation and harvest period, with probably no particular 

 blight resistance, although definite information is lacking on this point. 

 The large, well-filled nut and precocious bearing of the tree make this 

 variety rather promising. 



EUREKA No. 2. 



Another of the Stone Kaghazi seedlings, standing just west of the 

 original Eureka tree. Mr. Ware has six-year-old trees of this. It 

 is a large, full-meated nut, a little rougher, softer-shelled and darker- 

 meated than the Eureka. 



FORD'S IMPROVED. 



A selection from the Santa Barbara Soft Shell introduced by G. "W. 

 Ford, of Santa Ana. This variety appears to have been propagated 

 largely by seedlings, and has now become almost lost, or at any rate 

 it is no longer planted or propagated under the above name. 



FORD'S EUREKA. 



A Santa Barbara Soft Shell selection. Obsolete. 



GRENOBLE. 



A general name applied in California to walnuts of French origin. 

 The name is supposed to indicate the Mayette type to some extent. 



HALE. 



A variety named and propagated to some extent by the Experiment 

 Station, originating in a seedling tree in the orchard of Mr. William 

 Hale, between Fullerton and Placentia. The variety was first men- 

 tioned by name in Bulletin 203 of the California Experiment Station, 

 where it is figured on page 25. In this orchard there was formerly 

 a considerable block of seedlings of some French variety, the trees of 

 which varied widely in size, foliation period and character of the nuts. 

 Among these one particular tree was selected as being of some promise 

 for commercial planting. This tree was medium late in coming out, 

 free from blight, large and thrifty, and a fairly heavy producer. A 

 considerable amount of top-grafting with this variety was done on 

 orchard trees in Los Angeles and Orange counties about 1907 and 

 1908. When thus propagated the variety proved to be fairly quick 

 in coming into bearing, but of rather slow growth, making very stocky 

 branches with considerable tendency toward the production of fruiting 

 wood, but of rather short annual growth in length. The variet} T , like 

 all others with a late foliation period in the spring, has not fully 

 established its value in the south, but it may yet become of commercial 

 importance in some portions of the State. The original tree, together 



