THE CREATION OF NEW TREES 
upon it, and is fully equal to the Paradox. I 
recall seeing one of these Royal trees standing 
isolated in the front yard of a fruit ranch on 
the road to Sebastopol. It had been set out, a 
tiny sapling, at about the same time the trees 
were set out in the street in front of Mr. Bur- 
bank’s home, and in the dozen years it had 
grown to magnificent proportions, completely 
dwarfing the other trees in the vicinity, even 
the large native live-oaks which are so conspic- 
uous a feature of the northern California land- 
scape. Each of the new walnuts grows in 
comely fashion, having no bad habits and 
readily yielding to the pruning-knife or to 
training, in case a branch shows any signs of 
ungraceful waywardness. 
In a general way, the physical characteristics 
of each tree are quite like those of the other. 
These trees have been bred for purely com- 
mercial ends, though they possess rare beauty 
as well. The nuts, at first, were not thought 
to have any special value, the object in the 
scheme of breeding being to develop the tree 
itself rather than its fruit, but, as the experi- 
ment progressed, it was found that certain of 
the seedlings produced fine hybrid walnuts, 
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