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Show Walnuts From France. Tho best walnuts It the world at least thoy have that reputation are those grown around Grenoble, Frnnco, and a singular fact about them Is that at least three-quarters of the entire production are transported across the ocean to be eaten in Now York, Hos ton, Philadelphia, Chicago and other large American cities. The calcareous soil of southeastern Franco appears to bo particularly fmornble to the wal nut. On the rising land at tho base of tho French Alps (ho uut trees often form vcrltnblo cultivated forests. The finest variety, the "mayette," has a light-colored shell, and a broad, flat base, on which it readlll stands upright |