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WALNUTS. 



A Bijoux. See Large Fruited. 



COMMON. The common walnut being raised from seeds 

 there are a great number of varieties among those grown 

 in this country, varying in size, flavour, thickness of the 

 shell, and fertility. To secure a variety of a certain 

 character, it must be perpetuated by grafting in the same 

 way as varieties of other fruit trees are propagated. 



A Coque Tendre. See Thin Shelled. 

 Double. See Large Fruited. 



DWABF PROLIFIC (Early Searing ; Fertile ; Prcepar- 

 turiens ; Precocious). This is a dwarf-growing, early- 

 bearing variety, which I have seen produce fruit when 

 not more than two and a half to three feet high ; and a 

 tree in my possession, not more than six feet high, bears 

 abundant crops of good-sized and well-flavoured fruit. 

 This variety reproduces itself from seed. 



Early Bearing. See Dwarf Prolific. 

 Fertile. See Divarf Prolific. 

 French. See Large Fruited. 



HIGHFLYEE. This variety ripens its fruit considerably 

 earlier than the others, and is of good size and well 

 flavoured. 



Pe Jauge. See Large Fruited. 



LA EGE FRUITED (a Bijoux; Double; French; de Jauge ; 

 a Tres Gros Fruit). Nuts very large, two or three times 

 larger than the common walnut, and somewhat square 

 or oblong in shape. The kernel is small for the size of 

 the nut, and does not nearly fill the shell. It requires 

 to be eaten when fresh, as it very soon becomes rancid. 



The shell of this variety is used by the jewellers for 

 jewel-cases, and is frequently fitted up with ladies' em- 

 broidery instruments. 



LATE (Tardif; Saint Jean). The leaves and flowers of 



