LUTHER BURBANK 
might be expected to grow from these seeds. The 
statement, in view of the date when it was printed, 
has somewhat exceptional interest in the light of 
later developments, so I quote it here. 
It was as follows: 
“The six beautiful specimens of this hybrid 
growing on my home place have been objects of 
admiration to all who have seen them. 
“Young trees could have been sold at almost 
any price, but, having no time to raise them, offer 
this season’s crop of nuts which will be a great 
surprise in producing about one-third of a new 
type of the broad-leaved Persian walnuts, one- 
third of a new type of the California black walnut, 
and about one-third combined, as in the original 
tree.” 
The “original tree” in question was, of course, 
the hybrid called the Paradox, produced by cross- 
ing the California walnut and the Persian walnut. 
So the seedlings, the character of which is pre- 
dicted in the paragraph just quoted, would of 
course represent second generation hybrids from 
this cross. 
I make the quotation here, carefully specifying 
the date at which the original was printed, because 
there is a certain interest in knowing that tests 
made prior to this time with the seeds of the hy- 
brid walnut had clearly revealed to me the fact 
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