PART FIRST. 
NUT-BEARING TREES. 
Walnuts, Chestnuts, Almonds and Filberts. 
We would call the attention of the public to the valuable kinds of Walnuts and Chest- 
nuts, some quite rare yet and entirely new to this country, that we.have imported and 
introduced into California and the United States the last twenty years, and of which we 
give herewith a well detailed list. 
We will add that all our VValuut seedlings are trees of the " second generation," 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 seedlings retaining the main 
characteristics of the original type; walnut varieties degenerating very fast from the seed, 
till at the third or fourth generation they entirely go back to the mother type or common 
walnut (Juglans Regia). 
We will furthermore state that our trees are beautifully and heavily rooted, as only 
mountain trees are, the long and heavy tap-root of the Walnuts being accompanied with 
lots of lateral roots and any quantity of fibres, thus insuring the growth of all kinds, and 
of whatever size and age. 
WALNUTS. 
Our large collection of Walnuts comprises 
over fifteen distinct vatieties of the English 
Walnut (Juglans Regia), introduced by us 
into this country from Europe the last 
twenty years and having special character- 
istics — some being recommended either for 
the large size and fine shape of the nuts, or 
for their surprising fertility and precocity; 
others for their lateness in budding, and 
that enables them to withstand, uninjured, 
late frosts, so common in the spring, that 
hardly one-tenth 'of the whole area of the 
State may be said to be exempt of them; 
and in planting walnut trees, this immunity 
against frost should be given the prefer- 
ence to any other characteristics, qualities 
and advantages of the kiud, for the first 
requisite for the walnut wherever late frosts 
in the spring are prevalent, is to be hardy 
(see description of hardy kinds, such as 
Mayette, Vouiey, Parisieune, Franquette 
and others). Hut the question has been 
often put to us, which among our fine col- 
lection of walnuts we do consider the best 
to plant for family use, and which the best 
for market. So we shall right heie answer 
plainly th. se two questions. 
The Best Walnut for Family Use. 
As the size, shape, even color of the shell, 
is not precisely an object whenever a walnut 
tree is planted in the family garden, but 
rather the quality of the kernel, thinness of 
the shell, precocity and fertility of the tree, 
no variety recommends itself better for the 
family garden than the Proeparturiens, and, 
we will add, also the Cluster Walnut. 
Surely, there are varieties more late in 
budding out, and that might be preferred 
wherever late frosts in the spring are the 
rule; but, on an average, the Proeparturiens 
will do iu almost all parts of California. 
Prreparturiens, or Fertile Walnut— 
(Second generation). — This new variety of 
the J uglans Regia family was introduced by 
us into California in the winter of 1870-71, 
aud in our grounds in the mountains of 
Nevada County are the first trees of that 
kiud that ever produced fruit in this State. 
The nuts of the original or first generation 
Proeparturiens are rather small ; those of 
the second generation only are of a larger 
size, 70% being from medium large to 
quite large, aud 'A0'/ c of a smaller size. As 
to the nuts of the third and fourth gener- 
