454 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



Russell. Large, oblong; shell thin; commercially grown in three 

 fruit districts of the South. Mississippi. 



San Saba. Medium, oval. A sweet rich variety coming into 

 favor with planters. Texas. 



Van Deman. Large to very large, oblong; quality very good to 

 best. A popular variety with nut-orchard planters. Mississippi. 



In addition to the above in New Jersey the Guadaloupe from 

 Texas is propagated, and is said to bear earlier than most varieties, and 

 in the South fully a dozen other nurseries are propagating select 

 local varieties. 



THE WALNUT. 



Sections 283, 284, and 285 of Part I give some facts in regard to the 

 distribution and culture of the European walnut (Juglans regia) in 

 the United States; the need of alternating varieties and species 

 in orchard, and its propagation and possible increase of hardiness by 

 importing varieties from North Central Asia. 



The varieties now cultivated on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts 

 include some of those from Western Europe and their American 

 seedlings, together with varieties from Japan. The latter De Candolle 

 includes as varieties or types of Juglans regia. But recently botan- 

 ists have included the varieties from the mountains of North Japan 

 in a new species (Juglans sieboldiana), and those from the island of 

 Yezo in extreme North Japan have been included in another species 

 (Juglans cordiformis). At this time however, the J. cordiformis is re- 

 garded by most botanists as a variety of J. sieboldiana, and the writer 

 knows from actual inspection that the walnuts of Central Asia do not 

 differ materially from those of Japan in tree or nut very materially. 

 Even the growing of the nuts in large clusters peculiar to /. sieboldiana 

 repeated in the Asiatic varieties, and is also repeated in the cluster 

 and other varieties of J. regia; the early bearing habit of the 

 J. cordiformis is also repeated in the dwarf varieties of North Central 

 Asia; yet as a matter of convenience it may be best to include the 

 Japanese varieties as a distinct species. 



LEADING VARIETIES OF WALNUT. 



Cordiformis. Without much doubt this Japan variety is a climatic 

 variation of Sieboldiana. The trees bear very young, and prove 

 hardy in Ohio and along the coast as far as tested. The kernel is 



