THE ROMANCE OF OUR TREES 



have grown fairly well but have suffered slightly 

 nearly every winter. 



The European Walnut is one of the noblest of 

 northern trees, at its best it grows a hundred feet tall 

 with a broad, rounded crown of massive branches and 

 a bold, often gnarled, trunk fully 20 feet in girth. 

 Through long and wide cultivation many varieties 

 have originated and the nuts vary much in size, 

 shape, sculpturing, and thickness of shell. The 

 most superior kinds have a thin shell and are fully 

 2| inches in diameter. By careful selection it is 

 possible that even greater improvement will result. 

 A very interesting variety and one that deserves to 

 be better known is praeparturiens, which originated 

 in the nursery of Louis Chatenay at Doue-la-Fon- 

 taine, France, about 1830. Monsieur Chatenay 

 found among a batch of seedlings of /. regia three 

 years old an individual plant which bore fruit. This 

 variety was propagated and put on the market by 

 M. Janin of Paris. The nuts are generally thin- 

 shelled and though small of good flavour. It is 

 necessary to propagate this variety vegetatively 

 since it does not breed true from seeds. In the 

 garden of Professor Sargent, Brookline, Mass., there 

 is a supposed plant of this variety but it is a tree 40 

 feet tall; this tree fruits freely and is quite hardy. 

 It is not necessary to speak of other varieties, but of 



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