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Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, Cal. 



JUGLANS CaLIFORNICA. 



Staminate Parent. 



JUGLANS Nigra. 

 Pistillate Parent. 



(See also page 9. 



Hybrid Walnut. 

 All I^ife Size. 



Hybrid Walnut. S 



Juglans Nigra Jiigla?is Ca/i/oinica. • 



Unlike the hybrid just mentioned this one produces nuts in abundance 

 and of the largest size, as ma}^ be seen from the life-size photo^engravings ; the 

 quality also is very much superior to that of either parent ; the meat, which is 

 very large, and parts more readily from the shell, has none of the disagreeable 

 strong taste of the common American Black Walnut and much more sweetness 

 and character than the California Black Walnut. 



In foliage, growth, and general appearance the characteristics of both 

 parents are about equally combined in the hybrid. Bearing nuts when young 

 and abundantly as it does, a promising new field is opened for producing still 

 other variations. 



Price on application for partial or exclusive control. 



" Contrary to expectations I found the second invoice better than the first. I feel that 

 I have received much more than my money's worth. How it does revive one's faith in poor 

 human nature to meet, now and then, on the great highway of life a man who dotrs not 

 take advantage and is honest and square in action and word." A. P. Roache, 



Watsonville, Cal. 



New Japan Mammoth Chestnut. 



The common Japan Mammoth Chestnut has proved to be hardy over a 

 large portion of the United States, and the nuts of the true Mammoth variety 

 average about half a dozen times larger than the average American Chestnut. 

 For many years I grew and fruited seedlings by the thousand for the purpose 

 of producing a better variety. The variations in the size and qualit}' of the 

 nuts, and the productiveness and early bearing of the trees, were remarkable. 

 In one case a burr containing three good-sized, well-filled and well-ripened nuts 

 was produced by a tree in October, which had been grown from a nut planted 

 in April the year before ; thus ripe chestnuts w^ere produced from a nut planted 

 only eighteen months before. I now offer the best one of more than ten 

 thousand seedlings, a tree which each season bears all it can hold of fat, glossy 

 nuts of the ver}^ largest size and as sweet as the American Chestnut. 



Stock on hand : one large tree. Price for stock and exclusive control, $300. 



*The names and numbers under which some of these plants are described are temporary. 



