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istics of hardiness and the production of valuable 

 timber. 



The case of the Royal walnut shows also that 

 the tree that thus becomes a rapid grower may 

 also have the habit of enormous productivity. 



If the pecan could similarly be stimulated to 

 increased rapidity of growth, and to a propor- 

 tionate capacity for nut bearing, this tree would 

 be a fortune-maker for the orchardist. And there 

 is no obvious reason why the pecan should not 

 have the same possibilities of development that 

 have been demonstrated to be part of the endow- 

 ment of its not very distant relative, the walnut. 



FILBERTS AND HAZELNUTS 



There is yet another native American nut as 

 hardy and as widespread as the hickory, that has 

 been even more persistently neglected. This is 

 the familiar hazelnut. 



There are two familiar types of hazelnut that 

 often grow in the same region, and that resemble 

 each other so closely that the boys who gather the 

 nuts commonly do not discriminate between 

 them. One of these grows in husks with a long 

 beak, while the other has an incurved husk that in 

 some cases does not fully cover the nuts. There 

 are sundry varieties of the two species that may 

 sometimes be found growing in the same patch. 



