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be perfect bloomers, prolific ones, and bearing large and well shaped nuts, with a soft 
shell (but no paper-shell) and kernel of first quality with skin of light straw color should 
be selected; and wherever late frosts in the spring are liable to injure or kill the blossoms 
none but hardy and late kinds to be used. We do not hesitate in highly recommending 
such varieties as Mayette, Parisienne, Franquette, Vourey and Meylan, as much for their 
hardiness and lateness on budding out, as for the beauty and extraordinary size of the 
nuts. At the altitude of Nevada City these kinds put forth in May, and some do not 
bloom before the first of June, and mature their nuts well. We would refer our readers 
to walnut cuts in descriptive catalogue and also to the descriptions of each kind For 
astonishing fertihty and splendid quality of the nuts, we would recommend the Proe- 
partunens, Cluster, Chaberte, Serotina, and others. We have grafted trees of Mayette 
J<ranquette, Chaberte, Parisienne, Meylan and Vourey, and we would advise people de- 
sirous of transforming their unproductive or delicate trees into better sorts, to plant a 
few such trees from which to procure oions for budding and grafting purposes; never 
minding the high prices of these grafted trees, (and it cannot be helped if grafted walnuts 
have to be held up so high, so difficult and costly it is to graft young walnut trees) for we 
give the assurance, if not the guarantee, that all such trees have been grafted from the 
origmal stock, and that they carry along with them all the characteristics of the species 
be It their lateness m buddmg and blooming out, or the beauty and size of the nuts, or 
great fertility of the kind. 
After having obtained the right kind to graft with, the trees are set out in good ground 
and out back to two or three inches from the ground, if seedlings, or three to four inches 
from where they were grafted, if grafted trees, and about three to four shoots allowed to 
grow around the stock if a tree not bigger than the middle finger, more if a tree two inches 
in diameter; aU those shoots but one to be used for budding purposes; the very smaUest 
ones, big as a pencil, for grafting purposes; if more oions were desired the ensuing year, 
then the shoot that was left on the stock is cut back in the spring in the same manner 
We have "grafted trees" from 12 to 36 inches, from which one or two grafts could be 
obtained the very spring following the planting of the trees, by cutting back the trees. 
We will add that the "grafted walnuts" that we offer were gi'af ted expreslytoi us, regard- 
less of cost, by the most reliable firm to be found in the walnut district iu France through 
a process discovered several years ago, and which we will briefly describe for the benefit 
of people who may be luoUned to try this new method of grafting very young walnuts. 
HOT-HOUSE GRAFTING. 
One year old seedlings of the size of the little finger or about % inch in diameter at 
the butt, are selected, the root cut back short enough to permit the planting of the trees 
in pots of three inches in depth; the trees previously to being potted are grafted with cions 
exactly of the same size, whip or cleft grafting being used; the pots are then taken to a 
hot or propagating-house and a glass bell set over them to prevent the outside air of get- 
ting to the grafts; the temperature of the house being kept day and night, at least for 
fifteen days, or tiU the grafting has taken, to 70» Farhn. When the grafts are well taken 
and growing, the glass bells are removed, and the grafts allowed to grow three or four 
inches, before the little grafted trees are set out in nursery rows; it may be preferable 
especially in certain parts of the country, to keep the trees in the pots till the ensuing 
spring; 40 to 60 % of the grafts wiU succeed, and it is the best that can be done. 
, , ^ ™° °^ grafting the walnut, besides requiring a hot house, needs the care of a 
skillful person to make it succeed. So are grafted the little trees that we import from 
1- ranee, and that we plant in nursery rows and offer to the public, desirous of transform- 
ing any worthless, unproductive, or delicate kinds, into more valuable ones 
For more particulars on the varieties that we recommend for grafting purposes, and 
the prices of grafted and seedling trees, see the accompanying oatalo-ue 
