360 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



NECTARINES 



Numbered nearly in the order of ripening. 



FREESTONES. 



1. Early Violet. 



2. Hunt's Tawney. 



3. Hardwicke. 



4. El Ruge. 



5. New White. 



6. Boston. 



CLINGSTONES. 



7. Newington. 8. Koman. 



NUTS. 



The butternut, Juglans dnerea ; the black walnut, Juglans 

 nigra the shatter-bark hickory-nut, Carya alba and the 

 chestnut, Castanea Americana, which are common in the 

 Northern and Eastern States ; the chinquapin, or small chest- 

 nut, Castanea pumila, of Pennsylvania and southward ; with 

 the pecan-nut (French pacanier), Juglans olivceformis, and 

 the peanut of the Southwest and South, are all familiar to 

 my readers. The Madeira-nut, Juglans regia, is a thin-shell- 

 ed and valuable nut, the trees of which are cultivated to some 

 extent among us, but which might probably be grafted upon 

 either the butternut or any variety of the hickory. There are 

 also a number of varieties of filbert, some of which are occa- 

 sionally seen, but seldom in the green state, in our markets. 

 They generally have thinner shells, and better flavored and 

 larger kernels than the hazel-nut ; they are rather elongated 

 in form, and the husk of some kinds is peculiarly and hand- 

 somely fringed. 



The varieties are the Cosford, the Red-kerneled, the White, 

 the Frizzled. They are all easily raised from offshoots, or may 

 be grafted with perfect success upon the common hazel-nut. 



There is a rather new small nut, which, though not a tree, 

 may be mentioned here. It is the EARTH ALMOND or " CHUFA," 

 Cyperus esculentus. This sweet and pleasant nut is pro- 

 duced abundantly upon the roots of a plant that resembles low 

 tussock grass. The nuts, which are about the size of large 

 bush beans, should be planted or sown in drills twelve or 

 eighteen inches apart, and an inch deep, at corn-planting 



