PART FIRST. 
NUT-BEAEING TEEES. 
Walnuts, Chestnuts, Almonds and Filberts. 
We would call the attention of the public to the valuable kinds of Walnuts and 
Chestnuts, some quite rave yet and entirely new to this country, that we have imported 
and introduced into California and the United States the last seventeen years, and of 
which we give herewith a well detailed list. 
We will add that all our Walnut seedlings are trees of the "second generation," that 
is, grown from nuts borne either 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 Begia). 
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 fibers, thus insuring the growth of all kinds, and 
of whatever size and age. 
H WALNUTS, 
rooparturiens, or Fertile — (Second 
generation).— This new variety of the 
glans Regia family was introduced by us 
into California in the winter of 187U-71, 
and in our grounds, in the mountains of 
Nevada County, are the first trees of that 
kind that ever produced fruit in this State. 
The nuts of the original or first generation 
Proepartnriens are rather small (see Figs. 1, 
2 and 3) ; those of the se.cond generation only 
are of a larger size, 70 % being from medium 
large to quite large (see Figs. 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9), 
and 30 % of a smaller size. As to the nuts 
of the third and fourth generations, they 
are from small to medium (see Figs 10, 11, 
12), a small percentage being of a fair size; 
in other words, from the third generation, 
the Proeparturiens, like all walnxit varieties, 
goes back to the mother type or common 
French walnut. However, the nuts of the 
Proeparturiens, of whatever generation, are 
of first quality, full-fleshed, well flavored, 
the meat being invested with a thin, light 
yellow skin, and the shell also very thin 
and soft. 
The points of superiority which the Proe- 
parturiens posesses are many. First, it 
bears earlier than any other kind, bearing 
very often, when not transplanted, at two 
and three years: hence its name, Proepar- 
turiens, Fertile or Precocious— from Partu- 
riens, bearing, Pra', before, bearing before 
the usual time. Second, it blossoms late 
enough in the spring, though not so late as 
Franquette, Parisieune, Mayette, Chaberte, 
but from two to four weeks later than the 
California common English, or Los Angeles 
walnut, thus being less likely to be injured 
by late frosts. Third, its i istillate and 
staminate blossoms are in full bloom at the 
same time, which is another guarantee for 
a regular crop every year. The irregularity 
of bloom of the common California walnut 
is one of its gre:itest objections and draw- 
backs, as its uncertainty as a bearer arises 
according to localities, both from this ir- 
