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This cross-bred Japanese chestnut (Castauea crenata) is only twenty-three months old from 

 seed, but is blooming and bearing ripening nuts at the same time. Trees with this 

 pedigree usually flower the second season, showing greater precocity than any others 

 with which experiments have been made; in a few instances they have produced several 

 pounds of nuts in the third season after the seed was planted. (Figure 11.) 



bearing at three to five years from the 

 seed. They bloom ])rofusely, bearinj.^ 

 lonj^ ehestnut-hke catkins as shown 

 in plate 11. The burs are borne like 

 chinquapins in clusters or racemes of 

 three to five or more, rarely solitary, 

 and contain from one to three chestnut- 

 like nvits four to six times larj^'cr than 

 chinqua])ins. 



Nuts of the various species and types, 

 freshly collected and without selection 

 as to size, averaj^a-d in weight as follows: 



100 nuts Chinrjuapin 100 giammes 



" Native Chestnut V>5 



" " Hybrid Chin(|uapins. . . (t\?< 

 " " Japan Chestnut 



(pollen parent) 1024 " 



Tlu' first second-generation hybrid to 

 fruit in quantity bears nuts weighing 

 416 grammes to the hundred. They 

 show a tendency to increase in size and 

 weight as the tree develops. The 

 ai)])earance and relative sizes of the 

 various nuts are well shown in the ac- 

 companying i)lates. 



The time of ni)ening is very early, 

 forestalling even the wild chinquai)in, 

 as the first burs open late in August, 

 the crop l)eing wholly mature by 

 October withotit frost, thtis ])receding 

 all other chestntits of marketable size. 

 The ntits are handsome in ai)pearance, 

 smooth, dark brown in color, with very 

 slight tomentinn. and as they jw.ssess 



