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and thinness of shell they noted, and all the flat-ended ones might pass for Grenoble 
(Mayette proper), the test for this nut was standing it on end. The Chaberte, with its 
white flesh, showed up well, and the fine quality of the meat as it stood in the shell they 
noted. They claimed that their imporlation of the Mayette was mixed at times with a 
poorer quality. (The Mayette beinsj a high-priced nut, can hardly be imported to this 
country without l)eiug mi.'Cf d with a cheaper kind, on account of the tariff. F. G.) To have 
a nut very close at the end is an important objrct in the keppiug qualities and prevent- 
ing the end from being stung and bt comiiig wormy, a fault with many nuts. 
" The conclusion arrived at was that ths quality of these nuls would place them on 
the grade of a first-class nut, which no other California unt they had seen could be so 
classed. Now the second generation Mayette nut that your trees will bear ought to be 
equal to the original known under the trade name of Grenoble. The third generation, 
Proeparturiens, on account of their size, could not be sold ; if the second generation 
Proeparturiens average as those sent me, they would find a ready market at any 
place. 
"I mail you several samples of the 'improved soft shell' and ' French soft-shell,' so 
that you can see for yourself what they are, as it is satisfaction at times for one interested 
to see just what is being done by others." 
By all that precedes, it is shown that the best marketable Walnuts are those that are 
from medium to large, no small by any means, fairly-shaped, with a smooth, liKht-col- 
ored thin shHil ( not p.iper-shell, a kind that should never be pUnted for market), well close 
to the end, with a fine, fat, sweet kernel, with peliole of very light yellow, and not dark 
brown as that of the Los Angeles W.ilnut. improved or unimproved soft-shell. 
But to successfully grow such nuts as are the most suitable for market, those varie- 
ties should also combine fertility, hardiness and lateness in budding out to the fine ap- 
pearance and quality of the nuts ; for in nine-tenths of the area of California and iu Ore- 
gon, in fact all over the Pacific Coast, excepting the extreme southern end of this State 
and Arizona, none but hardy kinds should be planted, so as to insure a crop of nuts 
every year ; and it should be ascertained, too, that those kinds planted are " perfect 
bloomers." 
For size and beauty of the nuts, softness of the shell, hardiness of the kinds, we find 
that no varieties surpass the Mayette, Franquette and Parisienne, old, well-tried varieties 
of the southeast of France, that we have successfully fruited in California. However, as 
Walnuts deteriorate very fast from the seed, we wouldn't advise the planting of any but 
second-generation trees ; grafted trees are still better, but so difficult is it to graft young 
Walnuts that that class of trees is at the same time quite scarce and very high-priced. We 
guarantee that our second-generation trees are all grown, either from nuls borne on the 
Original, as it is the euse with the Prceparturieus, or nuts borne on grafted trees, them- 
selves lym/^cd /j-om iAe orijinaZ. This is an important point, for from the third genera- 
tion Walnuts have gone back to the mother type or common European Walnut (Jnglans 
Regia). Our experience in Walnuts, and we have many third-generation Proeparturiens 
in bearing in our grounds, warrants us in making such an assertion, fully corroborated 
by the experience of Walnut growers in France. 
In our General Catalogue we give a full description of the 19 varieties that constitute 
our fine collection of Waluuts ; so we will here give but a short description of each 
kind. 
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