The Paradox Walnut 



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Foliage of Royal Hybrid 



Foliage of the Paradox Walnut 



OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF THE PARADOX 



In 1877 Luther Burbank crossed Juglans regia with pistillate flowers of J. Californica. 

 Resultant nuts were planted in 1878, and in ten years the tree from one made the remarkable 

 growth of twelve inches in diameter at two feet from the ground. It was then accidentally 

 destroyed. Buds that had previously been secured and set on other stocks show the same 

 luxuriant growth of wood and foliage. Trees of these, four years from bud, transplanted to a 

 hard sidewalk, were in 1891 said to t>e as large as California trees ten years of age; the leaves 

 have a very strong, delightful fragrance of new apples, unlike any other tree. The bark is light 

 colored, thin, and very smooth. Specimen leaves nearly a yard in length, and a photograph of 

 the budded tree, sent to the Division of Pomology in 1892, indicate that the tree is a shapely, 

 symmetrical grower that furnishes abundant shade. Mr. Burbank says: " No other tree that 

 I have seen, except Eucalyptus, will equal this in growth." This tree has not yet fruited. He 

 has some crosses of J. nigra and J. Californica, of which one is six years old and exceedingly 

 handsome. [U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1896. 



