454 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



RusstU. — LarE:o, oblons; shell thin; commprcially ^rown in three 

 fruit (listrifts of thr South, Mississippi. 



San Saba. — ilcdium, oval. A sweet ricli variety eoming into 

 favor with planters. Te.xas. 



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

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



In addition to tlie aljove in Xew .Jerse}' the Guadaloupe from 

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

 in the South fully a dozen other nurseries are propagating select 

 local varieties. 



THE WALNUT. 



Sections 28.3, 284, and 28.5 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 .Jajjan. The latter De CandoUe 

 includes as varieties or types of Juglans regin. But recentl}' botan- 

 ists have included the varieties from the mountains of North Japan 

 in a new species (Juglans sicholdiana) , and those from the i.sland of 

 Yezo in extreme North .Japan have been included in another species 

 {Juglans cordijormis) . At this time however, the ./. cordijoniiis is re- 

 garded by most botanists as a variety of /. sicholdiana, and the writer 

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

 differ nuiterially from those of Japan in free or nut very materially. 

 Even the growing of the nuts in large clusters peculiar to J . sicholdiana 

 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. cordijiirmis is also repeated in the dwarf varieties of North Central 

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

 Japanese varieties as a distinct species. 



LEADixt; a'apjp:ties of wapnut. 



Cordiformis. — "Without much doubt this Japan varictv is a climatic 

 variation of Sieboldiana. The trees bear vei-y vomig, and prove 

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



