. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. Fig. 11.—Juglans Vilmoriniana. fast, and, although not more than seventy-three or seventy-five years old, is now seventy-five to eighty feet high,with a trunk-diameter of forty inches three feet from theground. Of the few seedlings which have been raised from thistree one is growing beautifully at Segrez, in the Arboretumof Monsieur Lavallee, and produces fertile nuts. All theseedlings have grown thriftily when planted in deep sandysoil mixed with clay. Is it to be supposed that the fine tree at Verriers is thefirst-bo
. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. Fig. 11.—Juglans Vilmoriniana. fast, and, although not more than seventy-three or seventy-five years old, is now seventy-five to eighty feet high,with a trunk-diameter of forty inches three feet from theground. Of the few seedlings which have been raised from thistree one is growing beautifully at Segrez, in the Arboretumof Monsieur Lavallee, and produces fertile nuts. All theseedlings have grown thriftily when planted in deep sandysoil mixed with clay. Is it to be supposed that the fine tree at Verriers is thefirst-born of its race? So it would appear from the factthat no older specimen is known. Is it probable, how-ever, that the planter would have selected a tree to com-memorate an important event in the family history, and tooccupy a specially favorable location, unless he had someidea of what it would become in time? Were its peculiari-ties and value known to him? To this there is no is not, however, customary in France to plant the Euro-pean Walnut as an ornamental tre
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