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CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



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." 



Japanese Walnut; Juglans Sieboldiana. This species, native of the north 

 of Japan, was introduced to California about 1860, and a tree grown from seed 

 planted about that time is growing at the Tower House, in Shasta county. 

 Recently the good points of the tree have been more widely recognized. Trie 

 following excellent description is by Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa : "This 

 species is found growing wild in the mountains of northern Japan, and is, 

 without doubt, as hardy as an oak. The leaves are of immense size, and a 

 charming shade of green. The nuts, which are produced in extreme abundance, 

 grow in clusters of fifteen or twenty, have a shell thicker than the English 

 walnut, but not as thick as the black walnut, very much resembling pecan nuts. 

 The meat is sweet, of the very best quality, flavor like butternut, but less oily, 

 and much superior. The trees grow with great vigor, assume a very handsome 

 form, need no pruning, mature early, bear young, and are more regular and 

 productive than the English walnut." The nut has an exceedingly hard shell and 

 does not rate commercially with the popular varieties of the English walnut. 



NEW CALIFORNIA VARIETIES 



Since the walnut blight invaded the commercial orchards and 

 resisted all remedies tried against -it, great interest has arisen in 

 particular trees which bore well in spite of the disease. As Cali- 

 fornia has such a large acreage of seedling trees there was a full 

 opportunity for the full manifestation of such resistance and a wide 

 field in which to exercise the art of selection. The result is that 

 many trees were found which are profitable even when the blight is 

 worst, and such trees are being given distinct varietal names. The 

 progress of this work should be watched in the publications of the 

 University Experiment Station at Berkeley, for the experts at its 

 branch laboratory and trial grounds in the walnut region of Southern 

 California, at Whittier, Los Angeles county, are largely engaged in 

 this work. Individual growers are alert at selection within their 

 own orchards and the prospect is that a general escape from the 

 blight and the establishment in our local pomology of a group of 

 especially desirable varieties will ere long be attained. 



