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The Division of Pomology of tlio Department, of Agriculture 

 gives tlie following list; but in almost every neighborhood where the 

 Black Walnut grows some good varieties may be found (28()). 



SOME SEI.FXT NATR'h] VARIETIES. 



Gordon. — Large, cubical, somi'what conical at each end; shell 

 medium in thickness; kernel light- colored, plump; quality very good. 

 The original tree has now a stem three feet in diameter. \'irginia. 



Mirza. — Large, compressed; shell thin; kernel large; quality 

 good. Original tree now forty inches in diameter. Ohio. 



Missouri. — Size medium; form oval; kernel large and plunqi, and 

 about as good as English walnut in purity of flavor. Missouri. 



Peanut. — Small to medium; ])yriform; shell thin; kernel entire 

 at the large end of the nut; quality very good. Ohio. 



Peanut. Taylor. 



Taylor. — Quite large, quadrangular, pointed; shell thin; kernel 

 large, and coming out in halves ; meat white ; quality very good. Ohio. 

 Thomas. — Large, ol)late, some\\-hat pointed at base, and still more 

 at apex; shell cjuite thin; flavor sweet, rich, very good. Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



THIO BUTTEUXUT. 



In Section 288 simie notes are given relative to the value of timber 

 and the value of select varieties of the nuts. As with the Black 

 Walnut it is variable in size and thinness of shell of tlie nuts, and, in 

 some ca-;es, tfic select varieties have fieen hjcally propagated and 



