THE PRODUCTION 
OF A 
QUICK-GROWING WALNUT 
Tue Bursank RoyaL AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS 
Y hybrid walnuts, already known to the 
M reader as the Paradox and the Royal, 
were first publicly announced in my 
catalog called “New Creations in Fruits and 
Flowers”, in June, 1893. 
The hybrid walnuts themselves were then five 
or six years old and the Royal had borne fruit, so 
that a photograph of its large-sized nut could be 
given. The Paradox, on the other hand, although 
it had flowered for several seasons, had produced 
no fruit. It was supposed, therefore, that it would 
be impossible to reproduce this hybrid from seed. 
In subsequent years, however, the Paradox 
proved its capacity to produce fertile fruit, al- 
though it was never a free bearer. And in my 
supplementary catalog of the year 1898, I was able 
to offer seeds of the Paradox for sale, and to make 
a statement as to the manner of seedlings that 
[VotumE XI—Cuapter VII] 
