PART FIRST. 
Fruit Trees. 
We will first say, that, though we keep on our place all the varieties 
■of frnit generally to be tound in any of the nurseries of the State, we, 
however, keep them more for our " local " market, and would therefore 
■advise people living at a distance from Nevada City, and desirous to 
procure trees of such varieties, to get them fiom their local nurseries, 
•where they can be had as genuine and cheap as from us. 
But we would call the attention of the public to the new and valuable 
kinds imported and introduced by us from France to California, some 
-of them to be obtained for the present but from us, and of which we 
give herewith a well detailed list. 
Walnuts. 
Proeparturieus or Fertile.— (This new variety of the Juglans Uegia 
family was introduced by us into California in the Winter of 1870-71, 
Fig. 1. Labge-Fedited PaajPAiiTnnlBNs Walnut. 
and on our grounds in Nevada City are the first trees of that kind that 
«ver produced fruit in this State). The fruit of this variety does not 
differ much from that of the English Walnut, of which it is, in fact, a 
sub-variety; shape, flavor and softness of shell being almost alike; but 
in regard to size, it varies a good deal, from a sharp-pointed nut to an 
almost round one, and from medium to large. The two annexed cuts 
representing. Fig. 1, the Large-Fruited Proeparturiens, and Fig. 2, the 
Late Proeparturiens, are very fair specimens of the size and shape of 
that nut. The kernel of the Proeparturiens Is tnll-fleshed and exceed- 
ingly well-flavored; the skin enclosing the meat, and which gives the 
meat when eaten the bitter taste of the walnut, in the Proeparturiens is 
very delicate and thin, and hence does not affect the meat very percept- 
ibly. The points of superiority which the Proeparturiens possesses are 
many: 
First — It bears earlier than any other kind, bearing sometimes at two 
or three years; hence its name, Proeparturiens — fertile or precocious, 
(from Parturiens, beaiiug, Pioe, before). 
