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There are fruiting trees in Mrs. Chase's garden, No. 69 

 Lafayette street, in Mrs. K. T. Woods' garden on 

 North street, in the garden in the rear of Dr. T. L. 

 Perkins' private hospital on Federal street, and in the 

 yard of Mr. G. P. Bray at 109 Bridge street. 



On Lynde street, in the yard of Mr. S. W. Gard- 

 ner's house. No. 4, at the rear of the new Odell Build- 

 ing, is a curious hybrid walnut, intermediate in character 

 between the English and black walnuts. Although 

 it is claimed that this tree and the one in Mr. Bray's 

 yard were planted by the same person, and were sup- 

 posed to be the same species, others dispute the claim. 

 However this may be, the trees are not the same. The 

 Lynde street tree is a hybrid walnut ( Juglans vilmorini- 

 ana) which appears to have originated independently 

 in several places. The tree which was first named 

 is in the garden of M. Vilmorin, at Verriers near Paris, 

 France, where, in accordance with a pretty French 

 custom, it was planted by the grandfather of the present 

 proprietor, a seedling tree, to commemorate the birth 

 of a child. This tree is now about seventy-five years 

 old. A picture and description of it will be found in 

 "Garden and Forest" on Feb. 4th, 1891, at page 51. It 

 is said that there are several hybrid walnuts in this 

 country, in Virginia, and I think elsewhere. 



A fine tree of this variety, now unfortunately cut 

 down, on the Ben : Perley Poor estate iu Newbury, it is 

 said, came from Virginia stock. This was, so far as can 

 be ascertained, the only other representative of this 

 hybrid walnut in Essex County. The nuts of the 

 Lynde street tree are generally imperfect, yet the tree 

 is of good form and has fine foliage, although it is now 

 somewhat restricted bv the walls of the new building. 



