GENERAL CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST. 
Season of 1898-99. 
BAEEEN HILL NUESEEY 
NEVADA CITY, CAL. 
nut = be:arinq trees. 
(WALNUTS, CHESTNUTS, ALMONDS AND FILBERTS.) 
WALNUTS. 
We would like to call the atteutiou of the public to the valuable kinds of Walnuts— 
some quite rare and entirely new to this country— that we have imported and intro- 
duced into California and the United States the last twenty-eight years, and of which 
we give herewith a well detailed list. 
We will add that those varieties that we are recommending to plant for market ai-e 
old and well tested varieties, some of them originated 130 years ago, that cannot be 
surpassed for beauty and size of the nut, quality of the meat and hardiness of the 
kinds; that they are all soft shell varieties— iu fact, the words "French soft shell" and 
"Improved soft shell," names given to inferior kinds with a rather J hard shell, are at 
any rate, misnomers, for the French do not cultivate but regular soft shell walnuts, 
and walnut dealers iu New York and Chicago or anywhere else do not care for nuts 
with softer shells than are those of the Mayette, Frauquette, Parisienne, Chaberte, 
and the like— all nuts, besides, well closed at the end, which prevents them from 
being stung by moths and becoming wormy, a fault with many nuts. 
We will furthermore state that our walnut seedlings are trees of the "second gen- 
eration "—that is, grown from nuts borne on the original tree, or on trees grafted from 
the original, so enabling us to give our patrons a better guarantee as to those seed- 
lings retaining the main characteristics of the original type — walnut varieties degen- 
erating very fast from the seed, till at the third and fourth generation they have 
entirely gone back to the mother type or common walnut (Juglaus Kegia). 
Varieties Best to Plant for Market. 
So far, and for the last forty years, iu California as well as in Oregon, the walnut 
mostly propagated was the Los Angeles Walnut, the most delicate, unproductive and 
worthless kind known ; and for the last eighteen years or so another delicate kind, 
though an improvement on the Los Angeles, the "Improved soft-shell" of Santa 
Barbara, a seedling of the Chili walnut, has been largely propagated iu Southern 
California, without any regard to the best grades of walnuts imported to this country 
from Europe, which should have been taken as a guide by our walnut growers as to what 
varieties best to plant. But since people's attention has been called to the defects of 
these varieties of walnut, the only ones planted in the large walnut-growing district of 
California, we have been repeatedly aaked: Which are the best varieties to plant for 
market ? 
The best marketable walnuts are, undoubtedly, those that are the largest, fairly 
shaped, with a thin, smooth and light colored shell, and with a fat, sweet kernel, this 
