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ALBANY NURSERIES 
WALNU1 S, Continued. 
eastern states, has been neglected here. 
It is a beautiful growing tree, and yields 
large nuts with a rough, hard shell, within 
which are sweet, rich, white, oily kernels, 
of marked, though most delicate flavor. 
This variety does well in the coast coun- 
tries and in well-watered regions of the 
foothills; not suited to the dry, hot valleys. 
California Black Walnut. (J. California.) 
This species of walnut is indigenous to 
California. The fruit is spherical, the nut 
is 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 east- 
ern kind, and bears sooner. 
PERSIAN WALNUTS. ( Juglans regia.) 
Also known as English, Maderia and French 
Walnuts. 
We would call special attention of the 
public to the following most valuable var- 
ieties of walnuts. The varieties we recom- 
mend to plant for market are tested var- 
ieties that cannot be surpassed for beauty, 
size of walnut, quality of meat and hard- 
iness of tree. Commercial walnut culture 
is concerned with Juglans regia, commonly 
known as English walnut, but in reality 
Persian, and sometimes known as the Ma- 
deria, and French walnut, as it was im- 
ported in to England from France. It is, 
however, a native of Persia or Southern 
Asia. 
FRENCH VARIETIES OF THE PERSIAN. 
These we grow from nuts secured in 
France, excepting the Franquette (see our 
16-page Walnut Book), from grafted first- 
generation trees, thus making ours the 
second-generation tree. These should not 
be confused, or prices compared with the 
common, tender varieties grown by most 
nurserymen as “English Walnuts, which 
are not hardy enough for the cold, 
northern sections, and are very often bar- 
ren, caused by the staminate (or male) 
blossom or catkin being out, while the 
pistillate (or female) blossom is yet in a 
dormant state; so that, when the latter is 
out, there are no male catkins to fertilize 
the nuts, which drop off after attaining 
about the size of a pea. Thousands of 
good healthy trees can be seen both in 
California and Oregon of this class which 
are worthless, except for shade. 
Grafted Walnuts. We are prepared to 
furnish grafted trees on American and 
California Black, also on English roots. 
Franquettes will be grafted directly from 
the Vrooman orchard and guaranteed to 
be first generation. Other French varie- 
Chas. Trunk, one of the leading walnut growers of the Willamette Valley, gathering the 
crop in his grove at Dundee, Oregon. 
