Nut Culture in the United States, Embracing Native And Introduced Species
Nut Culture in the United States, Embracing Native And Introduced Species
United States Division of Pomology
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86 NUT CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES are of better quality than the imported nuts. Careful selection from tne best types, and systematic crosses with the American nut will doubtless yield varieties superior in quality to any of those we now have. To aid in the supply of material for this work as well as to determine in some degree the comparative hardiness of the European chestnut, the Department of Agriculture in January, 1892, distributed in small lots to 150 nut growers and agricultural exper...iment stations a bushel of choice Italian chestnuts grown on the slopes of Mount JEtna. They were received by the courtesy of the State Department through the personal effort of Mr. Charles Heath, our consul at Catania ; they were nuts of fair size and of better quality than most of the European chestnuts. NAMED VARIETIES. BARTRAM LATE. Beported by William Parry, of New Jersey, as a valuable variety, ripening about the middle of October. The nut is medium in size, bright in color, and uniformly three in a bur.
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