. Catalogue of fruit and shade trees, ornamental plants and roses. Fruit trees Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Nut trees Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) California Santa Rosa Catalogs. catalogue: and prick list. 17 may be planted closer than fhe old kinds. They are the best trees to plant where other walnuts are troubled with late Spring frosts, as they do not start to grow or bloom as early by ten days as other varieties, and the fruit ripens a little earlier. The nuts bring four or five cents a pound more than the common English Walnut. The shell c
. Catalogue of fruit and shade trees, ornamental plants and roses. Fruit trees Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Nut trees Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) California Santa Rosa Catalogs. catalogue: and prick list. 17 may be planted closer than fhe old kinds. They are the best trees to plant where other walnuts are troubled with late Spring frosts, as they do not start to grow or bloom as early by ten days as other varieties, and the fruit ripens a little earlier. The nuts bring four or five cents a pound more than the common English Walnut. The shell can be easily broken by the hand. The meat is white and unusually sweet. Price 50 cents to |;, according to J-'"- Prseparturiens Walnut. ^ Prseparturiens, or Early-bearing" Walnut.— A variety of the English Walnut which bears when three or four years old. The nuts are of good size, and the flavor is excellent. Price, 50 cents to ^ each, according to size. Pecan Nut.—A vigorous grower, audit appears to be perfectly at home in California. Pecan timber is very valuable. The tree is also profitable for the nuts, which are imported in large quantities. Price, 25 to 50 cents. Siebold, or Japan Walnut. — This species, clearly distinct from all others, is found growing wild in the mountains of Northern Japan, and is without doubt as hardy as an oak. The tree grows rapidly and attains a very large size with a magnificent spreading top. The leaves are of immense size and of a charming shade of green. The nuts, which are produced in extreme abundance, grow in clusters of fifteen to twenty in a cluster, have a shell thicker than the English walnut but not as thick as the black walnut. The meat is sweet, of the very best quality, and can be removed entire. The trees grow w4th great ^dgor, and are easily grafted on our common walnuts, yet it comes perfectly true from seed, and this is the best way to raise it. All my trees of this variety were sold last season;
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