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and the shell the appearance and hardness 
of the Black Walnut. A very curious nut, 
but not desirable for market. Propagated 
by grafting. 
Monophylla Walnut.— One of the most 
curious varieties of walnut, with a very or- 
namental foliage. Entirely propagated by 
grafting. 
Ash-Leaved Walnnt.— Very ornament- 
al; bears a nut of fail size and good quality. 
Third Generation Proeparturiens. — 
Having grown and fruited third and fourth 
generation Proeparturiens the last fifteen 
years, it enabled us to come to the conclu- 
sion that from the third generation the 
Prceparturieus, though grown from nuts 
borne on genuine trees of the second gen- 
eration, loses the characteristics of the 
original, and goes back to the mother type, 
or Juglaus Kegia. We cannot, therefore, 
advertise such trees as true Pruopartu- 
riena. The nut is smaller than that of the 
second generation, but, like the latter, it is 
full-fleshed, very sweet and the flesh quite 
thin. 
All the trees that we have scattered 
throughout the State, and outside of it, 
the last twelve years, under the name of 
Proeparturiens, were "second generation" 
trees — trees grown from nuts borne on 
such trees are consequently nothing else 
but third generation Proeparturiens, or 
common French walnuts. So is it the case 
■ with trees grown from nuts borne on trees 
grafted from our second generation stock. 
Nuts borne on the original tree or tree'* 
grafted from the original are the only nuts 
to produce second generation trees; and 
that is what makes second generation trees 
so scarce and so much dearer. 
GRAFTED WALNUTS, 
Our collection of grafted walnuts is the 
rarest and most valuable collection of that 
kind to be found anywhere, not excepting 
Europe, the trees being all grafted from 
the original stock. But for the present 
we have grafted walnuts only of the follow- 
ing kinds: Mayette, Franquette, Ohaberte, 
Parisienne, Barthere, Cluster, Vourey, at 
$1.50 per tree. 
The difficulty in grafting the walnut is 
such, that we have 10 keep up the prices of 
this class of trees at such high ligures; it 
explains also the scarcity of " grafted " 
walnuts. We will add that, with the ex- 
ception of Mayette, we have but a very 
small stock of each kind, and would there ; 
fore decline orders even by the half dozen 
of any single kind. 
AMERICAN WALNUTS. 
Butternut. — This kind is indigenous to 
the United States, and well-known through- 
out the New England, Middle and Western 
States. The fruit is elongated; the nut 
hard and rough, with prominent ridges ; 
the kernel pleasant flavored and oily, 
whence the name butternut. 
Pecan Nut. — This variety is found in 
the valley of the Mississippi and its tribu- 
taries. The tree is beautiful, with a straight 
and well-shaped trunk. The nut is oblong 
and smooth, and the kernel sweet and 
highly flavored. 
Texas or Mammoth Pecan.— This is, 
undoubtedly the largest and finest Pecan 
growu in any parts of the Southern States 
— the home of that pretty nut, the Pecan. 
We have nice "2-year old trees of this re- 
markable variety, grown from nuts pro- 
cured from the valley of San Saba, Texas. 
Hickory Nut— (Shell Bark).— The hick- 
ory grows tall and slender, with rough and 
shaggy bark. The wood is much used in 
making hoops, whip-stalks, axe-handles, 
etc.; the fruit contains a thin shelled, 
richly-flavored kernel. 
California Black Walnut.— This spe- 
cies of walnut is indigenous to California. 
The fruit is spherical, the nut hard but 
smooth, and not furrowed like the Eastern 
Black Walnut; the kernel is rich and oily, 
This walnut is of rapid growth, spreading 
out more than the Eastern kind, but going 
to bearing sooner. 
Eastern Black Walnut.— Well known 
variety from the Eastern States. 
CHESTNUTS. 
MADRONS , OR FRENCH CHESTNUTS (SOLELY 
PROPAGATED BY GRAFTING). 
No nuts degenerate so fast from the seed 
as the chestnut; it is to say that none but 
"grafted" trees should be planted to grow 
such large and beautiful nuts for market 
as are the Marron chestnuts or French 
chestnuts, so superior to the Italian and 
Spanish chestnuts. 
All the varieties that we describe in this 
catalogue have been bearing with us, some 
of them for sixteen years; so we are able 
to tell about their qualities, size and flavor 
of the nuts; and we do not hesitate in 
highly recommending such varieties as 
Combale, Nouzillard. Qnincy, Grosse Pre- 
coce and Chalon Early, varieties that we 
propagate exclusively by grafting, and 
under their respective French name. 
Marron l)e Lyon. —Fruit large, round- 
ish, sweet and well flavored. Does not 
seem to do as well in California, as fur as 
beariug qualities are concerned, as it does in 
Europe. (See Fig. 14.) 
Marron Combale.— This variety is re- 
garded iu France as valuable as the Marron 
De Lyon, being even more productive. 
Here iu California we find it to do admira- 
bly well; it is very productive, and bears 
