FRUIT DEPARTMENT— NUT TREES 
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WALNUTS, Continued. 
ratios are grown from best French types 
of their kind that we have been able to 
seoure in France. 
Chaberte. An old and most valuable 
variety; late in budding out. The nut is 
well shaped, roundish oval, and of fair 
size, though it is not what is called a large 
nut; the kernel is of extra fine quality; a 
good bearer. The Chaberte was originat- 
ed over a century ago by a man named 
Chaberte, hence its name. 
Vrooman Franquette. An admirable and 
■— distinctive form 
of the Franquette walnut having import- 
ant and individual characteristics not found 
in the ordinary Franquette. It is especi- 
ally adapted to the northwest, and is 
hardy, prolific and blight resisting to a 
marked degree. It is also an early bearer, 
which further commends it. We will gladly 
send special descriptive literature concern- 
ing the Vrooman Franquette, on request. 
Franquette. Possesses distinctive char- 
acteristics. The tree is very hardy, with- 
standing the cold winters of eastern 
France, where it originated. It is a clean, 
viorous grower, has never been attacked 
by disease; a late bloomer, escaping late 
frosts; a regular and abundant bearer. 
The hull, or outside covering, is much 
thicker than in the soft-shelled varieties, 
and consequently the nuts do not sunburn 
during hot spells, when most others burn 
very badly. The Franquette is the ideal 
nut for dessert and confectionery use; it 
is of large, uniform size, long in form, 
and has a smooth, well-filled shell of me- 
dium thickness, which insures its safe 
shipment to market. Being long in form, 
it carries one to two ounces more meat 
per pound of nuts than the round or 
chunky sorts. Its pillicle is pale yellow in 
color; meat of exquisitely rich, oily, nutty 
flavor. 
The Franquette is the peer of all French 
varieties and the heaviest bearer; unlike 
the Mayette, which produces a nut of fair 
quality, but is a decidedly shy bearer; not 
like the Praeparturien or other early- 
blooming soft-shelled varieties, which only 
occasionly bear a crop of nuts of mixed 
sizes and inferior quality. The tender, 
soft-shelled varieties that have been 
planted in Southern California must be 
left severely alone in the North, in order 
to insure an annual and successful crop. 
First, the tree of the soft-shelled kinds are 
not hardy enough to withstand our coldest 
winters; and, second, because they bloom 
too early, they are almost sure to be 
caught by the frost. 
