Hybrid Walnut-"PARADOX." S 



Jiiglans Californica ^ Juglans Regia. 



One of the most interesting and valuable hybrids produced among Walnuts, 

 surpassing all others in rapidity of growth, size of foliage and beauty of form. 

 Budded trees six years of age under the same conditions are fully twice as large, 

 broad and tall as Black Walnuts at ten, or Persian Walnuts at twenty years of 



age. Ten to twelve feet growth per year is not 

 unusual; thus the hybrid grows twice as fast as the 

 combined growth of both its parents. The leaves, 

 which are often from two feet to a full yard in 

 length, are clean cut, glossy, bright green, have a 

 surpassing sweet odor resembling that of fragrant 

 Apples and as powerful and peculiar as that of 

 Roses or Lilies. 



The bark is thin, smooth, light gray, with 

 marblings of white; the wood is very compact, with 

 lustrous silky grain, taking a beautiful polish, and 

 as the annual layers of growth are often an inch or 

 more in thickness, and the medullary rays prominent, the effect is unique. This 

 hybrid originated in 1888 from a cross made the year before; like many true 

 hybrids, though blossoming freely every season, it bears but a few nuts, but is 

 easily budded or grafted on thrifty young Black Walnuts. 

 As an ornamental and timber tree it is peerless. 



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, ofifer this season's crop of nuts, which will be a great surprise in pro- 

 ducing about one-third of a new type of the broad-leaved Persian Walnut, one- 

 third of a new type of the California Black Walnut, and about one-third combined, 

 as in the original tree. 



New varieties of priceless value will certainly be produced from these hybrid 

 nuts, which germinate very freely. 



Paradox seedlings will probablv be about as hardy as the common Persian 

 Walnut. 



Price per nut $ .50 



" ten nuts 3.50 



one hundred nuts 25.00 



"So far as we know no man in the world is doing so much in the origination of new 

 fruits and ornamental plants. The work is advancing each year in extent in elaborateness 

 and in results of the highest value and uniqueness." — California Fruit Grower. 



"Every day he does the work of two or three ordinary men, and every day he wrestles 

 with the problems of life until he forces answers from the very lips of the Sphinx." — C. H. 

 S., in San Francisco Call. 



"Mr. Burbank has not only created numerous fine varieties capable of unthought of 

 charms to the garden, but has also produced an almost limitless mass of promising materials 

 for other hybridists and florists to work upon." — W. A. B., Philadelphia, Pa. 



"The benefit accruing to the world from these new creations in fruits and flowers is 

 incalculable." — Texas Farm and Ranch. 



"I fully believe you are unlocking the portals of a limitless ocean of valuable knowledge 

 in horticulture." — G. H. C, Phoenix,' Arizona. 



"I cannot refrain from complimenting you on your most remarkable results, of which 

 J heard not only in Europe, during a stay of some years there, but also in a region as far 

 away as Java, where the Dutch cultivators are very much interested indeed in some of your 

 remarkable productions." — D. G. F., Washington, D. C. 



"While I have long been impressed with your w^ork, I am now overwhelmed with the 

 vast amount of good you have been able to accomplish." — W. B. A., Virginia. 



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