NUT-BEARING TREES 



through chestnut leaves in the bracing Novem- 

 ber air, stooping now and then for a nut 

 perchance remaining in the warm and velvety 

 corner of an opened bur. 



Here in Pennsylvania, and south of Mason 

 and Dixon's line, there grows a delightful 

 small tree, brother to the chestnut, bearing 

 especially sweet little nuts which we know as 

 chinquapins. They are darker brown, and the 

 flesh is very white, and rich in flavor. I 

 could wish that the chinquapin, as well as the 

 chestnut, was included among the trees that 

 enlightened Americans would plant along road- 

 sides and lanes, with other fruit trees ; the 

 specific secondary purpose, after the primary 

 enjoyment of form, foliage and flower, being 

 to let the future passer-by eat freely of that 

 fruit provided by the Creator for food and 

 pleasure, and costing no more trouble or 

 expense than the purely ornamental trees more 

 frequently planted. 



Both chestnut and chinquapin are beautiful 

 ornamental trees; and some of the newer 

 chestnut hybrids, of parentage between the 

 American and the European species, are as 



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