Origin: in Yakima, Wash., by Wilhelm Schafer. Introd. in 1940 by H. Lynn Tuttle, Lynn Tuttle Nursery, Clarkson, Wash. Plant patent 494; 16 Dec. 1941; by Wilhelm Schafer and Marie Schafer; assignors to H. Lynn Tuttle. Seedling selected in 1937; grown from seed imported in 1920 into the U.S. by Mrs. Schafer from the northern foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, Province of Bukowina, Rumania. Nut: Carpathian type; large; shell thin, tightly sealed; high percentage of kernel, very fine quality, oily, rich; matures in a short growing season, in early fall. Tree: vigorous; tall, spreading; extremely hardy; bears annually and abundantly. Fruit:
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