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and below during the winter. Seedlings raised from 

 nuts obtained near the northern limits of this species in 

 Texas and New Mexico would probably be hardy in 

 most of the Northern States, but they are scarcely worth 

 cultivating for their nuts, owing to the small size and 

 thick shell ; but as the trees are neat and graceful they 

 are worthy of a place among other useful and orna- 

 mental kinds. An occasional bearing tree of this Texas 

 wahiut may be seen in the gardens and parks of the 

 Eastern States, and probably in some of the Western, 

 but I ha?e no direct information in regard to their loca- 

 tions or age. 



Synonyms : 



Juglans rupestris, Torrey. 



Juglans Californica, Watson, Bot. California. 



Oriental Walnuts. — How few or many species of 

 the walnut are indigenous to China, Korea, Japan and 

 other Oriental countries it would be very difficult to 

 determine, with our present limited knowledge of the 

 forests of that part of the world. The few botanists 

 who have had opportunities of studying the flora of 

 those regions do not agree as to names or number of 

 species of the genus. Loureiro, in his "Elora Cochin- 

 chinensis" (1788), names three species as indigenous to 

 China, viz. : Juglans regia in the northern part, but 

 this is now considered very doubtful ; Juglans Camirium, 

 Rhumphius, a medium-sized, heart-shaped nut, the trees 

 found in the forests, and also under cultivation ; Ju- 

 glans Catappa, a large forest tree in the Cochin China 

 mountains, with oblong, edible nuts, with husk and 

 shell of nuts of a reddish color. Many years later Sie- 

 bold describes a Japan walnut under the name of Juglans 

 Japonica, and still later the Eussian botanist, Maxi- 

 omowiez, renames this, in horror of Siebold, Juglans 

 Sieboldiana, and describes another native of Japan as 

 Juglans cordiformis. But prior to any of the authors 



