The Nut Culturist: A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United StatesFuller, Andrew S. (Andrew Samuel)
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The Nut Culturist: A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States
Fuller, Andrew S. (Andrew Samuel)
Nuts
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CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION, 1
CHAPTER II.
THE ALMOND, 12
CHAPTER III.
THE BEECHNUT, 44
CHAPTER IV.
CASTANOPSIS, 55
CHAPTER V.
THE CHESTNUT, 60
CHAPTER VI.
FILBERT OR HAZELNUT, 118
CHAPTER VII.
HICKORY NUTS, 147
CHAPTER VIII.
THE WALNUT, 203
CHAPTER IX.
MISCELLANEOUS NUTS--EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE, 254
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Fig. Page.
1. A California almond orchard, 18
2. Budding knife, 24
3. Yankee budding knife, 24
4. Prepared shoot, 26
5. Incision for bud, 27
6. Bud in position, 28
7. Hard-shelled almond, 36
8. Thin-shelled almond, 37
9. Beechnut leaf, bur and nut, 51
10. Leaves and nut of Castanopsis chrysophylla, 56
11. Castanopsis bur, 57
12. Chestnut flowers, 61
13. Splice graft, 75
14. Splice graft inserted, 75
15. Stock, 77
16. Cion, 77
17. Two cions inserted, 77
18. One cion inserted, 77
19. American chestnut leaf, 88
20. Spike of burs of bush chinquapin (_Castanea nana_), 89
21. Spike of chinquapin chestnut bur (_C. pumila_), 90
22. Single bur, nut and leaf of chinquapin
chestnut (_C. pumila_), 91
23. Japan chestnut leaf, 92
24. Burs of Fuller's chinquapin (one-half natural size), 97
25. Fuller's chinquapin, five years old from nut, 98
26. Bur of Numbo chestnut, 101
27. Spines of Numbo chestnut, 102
28. Numbo chestnut, 102
29. Paragon chestnut bur (one-half natural size), 103
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