. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. ry charac-teristics fromthe first. Thegenus Walnutcontains twospecies, Jug-1 an s reg ia,which p r o-duces all theedible varietiesof Walnut, andJuglans nigra,generally call-ed the Ameri-ca n Walnut,with whichmay be asso-ciated the Jug-1 a n s cinereaaud Mands-churia, whichare only varie-ties. Let us takethe smallestvariety Juglansregia micro-carpa is repre-sented in itsnatural size infig. L It is asmall tree withspreadingbranches andcompound leaves, imparipinnate, with from seven to nine oval ellipticaland
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. ry charac-teristics fromthe first. Thegenus Walnutcontains twospecies, Jug-1 an s reg ia,which p r o-duces all theedible varietiesof Walnut, andJuglans nigra,generally call-ed the Ameri-ca n Walnut,with whichmay be asso-ciated the Jug-1 a n s cinereaaud Mands-churia, whichare only varie-ties. Let us takethe smallestvariety Juglansregia micro-carpa is repre-sented in itsnatural size infig. L It is asmall tree withspreadingbranches andcompound leaves, imparipinnate, with from seven to nine oval ellipticaland sessile leaflets, entire, pointed at the top, and sometimescusped. The fruits are spherical, and from i in. to | in. indiameter; when covered with the rind they are terminated bya pretty large persistent style. The outside of the shell isslightly sinuous or almost smooth, and the cotyledons verylarge in proportion to the size of the entire fruit. They areof a more delicate flavour than those of the ordinary variety is remarkable from several points of view. The. Fig. 1.—Small-fruited Walnut (Juglans regia microcarpa). general aspect of the tree reminds us of certain species ofPterooarya, especially Pterocarya caucasica. The size of itsfruit, too, separates it widely from all known species, being lessthan that of many varieties of Nuts. When with othervarieties of widely different shape and size it forms an interest-ing addition to the dessert-table. When mixed with ordinaryNuts it is hardly to bo distinguished from them, except bythe shape. As a fruit tree the Juglans regia microcarpa has its points ofscientific inte-rest. Differ-ing, as it does,from all knownvarieties, i tshows how asingle speciesmay vary, audwe aie con-vinced that itis only a vari-ety of the cul-tivated W a 1-nut; for, if weraise it fromits own seed,the results, inthe majority ofinstances,revert tothe ordinarytype. TheJuglans regiamicrocarpashows that acertain typebeing given, iti s extr
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