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Carelessness in this particular has played its part in keeping these nuts from 

 deserved popularity. 



The Hazel nuts present some very large thinner shelled specimens of good 

 flavor. Culture would probably so improve these as to make of this a formid- 

 able competitor of the Filbert, which, so far as the reports show, has not been 

 satisfactorily grown in this country. 



Of the Chinque, the reports and specimens received indicate a field for 

 observation and culture that we may expect to remain but little longer unoccu- 

 pied. 



These nuts are broadly scattered over the country, growing invariably, so 

 far as the report shows, without cultivation; they are best cured for market the 

 same as the Chestnut, of which- they are a dwarf species. 



The Pinon, or Pine nut of Northern California, is quite unknown to the 

 people east of the Mississippi river. This nut is marktable in immense quan- 

 tities in the cities of the Pacific, where it is popular. 



The Beechnut is larger and sweeter in the North and East than in warmer 

 Central or Southern States. It is popular, and in places fashionable on hotel 

 tables. 



