Hybrid Walnut— "PARADOX." 
Juglans Califomica 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 
■MMIM)^!. 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 
HJifww length, are clean cut, glossy, bright green, have a 
\ "lllSSH 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 vear 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, offer 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 probably 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 
irmts 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., m 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 
lor 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 
I heard not only 111 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 work, I am now overwhelmed with the 
vast amount of good you have been able to accomplish."— W. B. A., Virginia. 
