A TREATISE ON NUT CUI/TURE. 



WILD ^CULTIVATED NUTS. 



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From Southern Cultivator and Dixie Farmer. 



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E DIVISION OF POMOLOGY, Department of Agriculture, will soon 

 issue a bulletin upon the Wild and Cultivated Nuts of the United 

 States. 



In Central California, on well drained level lands, orchardists report cheer- 

 ing results with the hard and soft shell Almond. It is not an unusual thing to 

 nd in that section plantations of from two thousand to five thousand of these 

 trees. The culture is much the same as for the peach. 



The Madeira nut is cultivated in orchards of from one hundred to fifteen 

 hundred trees throughout the southern portion of California in proximity to 

 the coast. By careful selection of seed and improved culture, seconded by a 

 happy " sport " in nature, the growers of California have secured a very relia- 

 ble "paper shell " variety of this nut. Reports of this " Improved " Madeira 

 concur that it will bear in that locality at from five to seven years of age, that 

 it has a very thin shell, and in kernel it surpasses the mother nut. 



The Madeira is also reported from most of the States as among the collec- 

 tion of nut-trees grown by planting; its territory extends not quite so far south 

 as the Pecan, nor so far north as the Shag-bark Hickory. On Staten Island, 

 New York, the Madeira nut is marketed green for pickling and for catsup. 



The Pecan is grown in orchards and in groves in the South Central and 

 South Western States. By selection and culture there are now produced some 

 very large soft-shell, superior nuts of this kind. While there are more Pecans 

 grown in the native forests of the territory mentioned than in orchards, yet 

 grove culture of this nut is profitable there, and promises an increased yield of 

 larger and better nuts. The Pecan is very generally reported as far north as- 

 New York and west to the Missouri river. 



