66 A TREATISE ON NUT CULTURE. 



The Union Seems Perfect. 

 Isaac F. Tillinghast. 



Our experience in Chestnut culture is not extended enough to prove of 

 much value as yet, the trees having been set but three and four years. They were 

 Numbo and Japan Giant, grafted four or five feet from the ground. The union 

 between stock and scion seems perfect enough, as none has broken apart. L/ast 

 seasofl the trees averaged, perhaps, ten burrs; some had two and some three 

 very large nuts in each, which ripened before our native nuts. We think the 

 quality excellent, in fact, fully equal to small, native nuts'. We see no reason 

 why it would not be a profitable industry, and have seriously contemplated 

 setting a large orchard. 



Regrets for Small Planting. 

 C. Cooper, Pennsylvania. 



I have had .some experience, but only in a limited way, having but few 

 trees bearing. One of these is about twenty-five years old, and for several 

 years has annually produced from one to one and one-half bushels. Had I, 

 when it was planted, put out ten or twelve acres, they would have long since 

 paid for the ground, labor, interest, taxes on land, and been netting now a 

 nice income, with no expense, except for gathering the crop. This tree is of 

 the Spanish variety; the fruit is about two and one-half times larger than the 

 common wild nut, and of equally good quality, i. We graft from six inches 

 to three feet above the surface, according to conditions. 2. The union seems to 

 be good after the second year; occasionally by storms or accident, if the 

 growth is strong, perhaps two or three per cent, may be broken. 3. I have 

 never known them to break after the third year. 4. Generally the third 

 or fourth year, when they would be, if grafted on a stock not removed, 

 eight to ten feet high. 5. One to three nuts to the burr. 6. I have never 

 found the quality of Paragon, Numbo or any of the very large nuts equal to 

 that of our Spaisnh nut. 



THE CHESTNUT IN CALIFORNIA. 

 By Felix Gillet, in Pacific Rural Press. 



Last Spring, a very good book from the Department of Agriculture, en- 

 titled "Nut Culture in the United States," was issued, but on account of an 

 act of Congress, passed last winter, limiting to an edition of one thousand 

 copies all bulletins, reports, etc., containing more than one hundred pages, 



