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J. F. JONES, LANCASTER, PA. 
The English Walnut 
FRANQUETTE. One of the finest and most reliable walnuts both east 
and west. The leading market variety in Oregon and Washington. Tree 
very hardy and reliable. The nut is medium to large; shell fairly thin and 
the cracking quality very good indeed. The Franquette is a very fine flavored 
nut and is free from the bitter tannin found in some walnuts. My trees 
are of the Vrooman strain which is much the best of this type. 
MAYETTE. An extra fine nut and fortunately, a very hardy and reliable 
tree. Mayette is perhaps the largest nut with a thin shell and smooth and 
attractive that we have. The shell is thin and soft so that the nuts are easily 
cracked by crushing in the hand and the quality is the very best, the large, 
white kernel being free from the bitter tannin found in many nuts. My trees 
arc of the Wiltz variety which is by far the most reliable of this type. This 
variety is doing fine here and elsewhere over the eastern U. S. and is one 
of the few sorts that is perfectly self pollinating. The very large catkins 
(staminatc bloom) hang a long time and shed an abundance of pollen. 
EASTERN VARIETIES: I am not at present propagating any eastern 
varieties of the English walnut. Mayette and Franquette have proven just 
as hardy and more reliable, and are the finest in point of nut of any walnuts 
known. These varieties vegetate late and are never caught by frost, while 
the eastern varieties that we have had under propagation loose an occasional 
crop from frost. 
CHINESE ALPINE WALNUTS: These trees, grown from large, fine 
nuts gathered especially for me by the Kinsan Arboretum, in the Mountains 
of North China, arc the hardiest type of the so-called English or Persian 
walnut. The nuts sent me were very fine and I am anxious to see as many 
trees brought into bearing as possible. Out of some of them very valuable 
new varieties, hardier than any yet known, may be obtained. These trees 
arc exceptionally stocky and thrifty. They were dug with the whole roots 
and very carefully transplanted and have the finest root systems ever seen 
on walnut trees. Every tree should grow and thrive. These run about 1 1 /> 
feet tall. Prices, two year seedling trees as above $1.00 each; $10.00 per 
dozen. 
Wiltz Mayette Vrooman Franquette 
Prices of English Walnut Trees Budded or Grafted: 
\ l /z to 2 feet $1.75 each or $17.50 per dozen 
2 to 3 feet 2.00 each or 20.00 per dozen 
3 to 4 feet 2.25 each or 22.50 per dozen. 
4 to 5 feet 2.50 each or 25.00 per dozen. 
5 to 6 feet 2.75 each or 27.50 per dozen. 
