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The stock being short, he secured but thirty-six. Of these he sold to 

 Mr. Latham ten at ten dollars each,, to Mr. Selby two, to J. D. Roberts 

 four, and to Mr. Meek of Alameda twelve. Rosse & Grant claim to have 

 obtained the seed from the Cashmere Valley, Persia. ' '* Further inquiry 

 of Mr. Shinn in regard to the parties mentioned in this letter brought 

 out further information in regard to the extensive scale upon which 

 Kaghazi trees, mostly seedlings, were sold by his father during the 

 eighties and nineties. 



It is evident from what we have said that this is a fairly distinct 

 variety, and that, if Mr. H. "W. Meek's memory was correct, it was 

 introduced independently into California by his father, William Meek, 

 and the late James Shinn. Trees are still to be found here and there 

 about the State which are evidently of this sort. There are several long 

 rows of the seedlings on the old Meek place, some extending from the 

 residence toward the town of Hay wards and others along various other 

 roads. There are a number of trees of similar nature in Contra Costa, 

 and in that locality one particular type of this sort has been quite 

 extensively propagated by grafting under the name of Persian. A large 

 number of the older, top-grafted walnut trees in the San Ramon and 

 other valleys in the Mount Diablo country are of this so-called Persian 

 variety. There is quite a number of trees of Kaghazi type in the 

 vicinity of the Shinn place at Niles and also about the Niles High School 

 and vicinity. Near Goleta there is a considerable orchard of similar 

 seedlings on the ranch of the Goleta Walnut Company. These trees 

 vary quite widely in many respects z but as a whole they are marked by a 

 late and irregular coming out in the spring and the peculiar appearance 

 of the bark on the trunk, which is cracked or grooved characteristically 

 in an up and down direction. A great many of the trees bear nuts 

 which are extremely thin-shelled and poorly sealed, and some of them 

 are quite desirable except for this defect. Some of them are nuts of the 

 highest eating quality, of fine shape and beautiful, light-colored shell 

 and meat, but with shells which open at the slightest pressure of the 

 fingers. It is remarkable that of the many hundreds and thousands of 

 seedlings of the Kaghazi type which have been brought into bearing in 

 California only one, the Eureka, has shown exceptional worth. It seems 

 probable that this is the result of a cross of the original Meek Kaghazi 

 tree with some hard-shelled English walnut in the vicinity, as the shell 

 of the Eureka is particularly hard, strong, and well sealed. 



"The Kashmir Valley lies just northwest of India rather than in Persia, and is, 

 we are credibly informed, the home of the Kaghazi walnut. 



