BULLETIN 231] WALNUT CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA. 311 



In Wickson's "California Fruits," we find the following: "Kaghazi: 

 A variety called Kaghazi was grown and propagated for several years 

 by the late James Shinn of Niles, who described it is follows: 'very 

 much larger than the ordinary kinds and thinner shelled. The tree is 

 late in putting out leaves and blossoms, and is therefore especially good 

 for places that are in danger of late frosts. ' : 



It appears from the above quotations that the Kaghazi is an extra 

 large, elongated, extremely thin-shelled nut, borne on a tree which 

 comes out late in the spring. The variety would have no particular 

 importance in California at the present time were it not for its apparent 

 relation to the Eureka, the parent tree of which resembles very closely 

 the above description of the Kaghazi. We have mentioned in describing 

 the Eureka the fact that the original tree at Fullerton was found to 

 be a seedling from a still older tree standing on the Meek homestead 

 near Haywards. The particular tree which is the mother of the Eureka 

 is the southernmost one of two which stand just east of the Meek resi- 

 dence. This old tree bears an unusually large, long, extremely thin- 

 shelled nut, coinciding exactly with the description of the Kaghazi. 

 In regard to the origin of this tree, Mr. H. W. Meek, now deceased, 

 made the following statement : ' ' All I know about these trees is that a 

 neighbor of my father's gave him a few walnuts a number of years ago 

 which he claimed he had received from the United States representative 

 in Persia. My father planted the nuts, and the two trees which I have 

 at present are the result. I do not know whether the walnut propa- 

 gated by the late James Shinn has anything to do with the trees or 

 variety which I have growing here. The Stones of Fullerton have some 

 trees growing from the nuts from my trees here, but I have never heard 

 how they turned out." In regard to the Shinn trees, Mr. J. C. Shinn 

 states as follows: "The Persian walnuts we have possibly came from 

 the same party referred to in a letter from Mr. Rixford which I enclose, 

 though my memory is that they came from some one in Illinois who had 

 tried trees raised from nuts direct from Persia and found them too 

 tender. They were bought about the year mentioned by Mr. Rixford. 

 The late James Shinn bought, as he understood, the whole stock of the 

 party who brought the nuts over. The party sent a few nuts as a 

 sample and they were a very large, thin-shelled nut. There had been 

 some report in a United States agricultural report about that time that 

 had aroused his interest. "We sold many seedling trees, much seed for 

 planting, and later quite a number of grafted trees of the Persian or 

 Kaghazi walnut. There must be thousands of bearing trees in the State 

 from those we sold." The letter from Mr. Rixford, referred to, states 

 as follows : "In September, 1873, Mr. Finch of Alameda ordered from 

 Rosse & Grant, Topeka, Kansas, fifty Persian or Kaghazi walnut trees. 



