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lish walnut, Chile walnut, Madeira walnut, and other 

 names which have been applied to this species away 

 from its original habitat in Asia. In this country 

 it is commonly called English walnut because it was 

 brought here from Spain and France by missionaries 

 and because the chief importations are from France 

 and Italy. If there are any other reasons for apply- 

 ing the name English walnut to the species the author 

 is not clear on the subject. 



Commercially the Persian walnut now stands 

 alongside of the pecan hickory among nut trees 

 which are being cultivated for market purposes in 

 this country. Trees of this species have been de- 

 veloped in so many varietal forms in different coun- 

 tries that we now have nuts ranging in size from 

 the enormous Gant, used for a jewel casket, down to 

 nuts no larger than hazel nuts, which are crushed 

 shell and all for the extraction of the oil. Medium 

 sized kinds of walnuts with thin shell and high qual- 

 ity of kernel are the ones chosen for market pur- 

 poses in general. Among these the Mayette, Fran- 

 quette, and Parisienne may stand as being represen- 

 tative of all that is best. Different varieties of the 

 species are pretty well distributed over almost the 

 whole of the temperate parts of the northern and 

 southern hemispheres. This aristocratic nut tree, 

 however, is a stickler for suitable conditions of soil 

 and climate, but noblesse oblige, and for that reason 

 various forms which adapted themselves to certain 

 kinds of soil and climate vary greatly in character- 

 istics from others which adapted themselves to other 



