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those generally cultivated as such in this country are the 

 following. 



11 S/ianish, or Marron. With fruit as large as the 

 Horse Chestnut, of fine flavour, and excellent when boiled; 

 highly esteemed by every one. 



12. American Chestnut. Found throughout our forests. 

 Fruit of moderate size, pleasant when raw, and also excel- 

 lent when boiled, and when moderately baked may be pre- 

 served a long time. 



13. Common Chinguafiin.T\\e smallest fruit of the 

 chestnut kind, being about the size of hazlenuts ; excellent 

 when collected from the tree, and superior to either of the 

 foregoing when boiled. It is a tree of very dwarf growth, 

 and commences producing fruit when not above two feet 

 high, and at extreme age seldom attains more than eight 

 feet. It is found wild along the roads in Maryland and 

 several other States, and generally on quite poor ground. 



14. Prince's Chinguafiin. This tree was originated at 

 the nurseries of the author, by impregnating the one last 

 described with the pollen of the Spanish Chesnut, and is 

 intermediate between the parents. The fruit is of good 

 size, and very fine when raw or boiled, and the tree is a 

 dwarf cf rather larger stature than the preceding. It com- 

 mences producing fruit when very small, and attains, when 

 advanced in age, to the height of about 12 feet. It is ex- 

 tremely well calculated as a garden chestnut, and has been 

 eagerly sought after by the lovers of horticulture in Europe. 



Note- There are various species calculated for orna- 

 ment, such as the .While, Yellow, and Red flowering Horse 

 Chestnut ; the Dwarf White seldom exceeding five feet in 

 height, and particularly beautiful, the Rubicundaoi Europe, 

 &c. &c. 



WALNUTS. 



1 . Persian Walnut^ or Madeira Nut. This tree, gener- 

 ally called English Walnut or Madeira Nut, is a native of 

 Persia, consequently neither of the specific titles have any 

 application. It was formerly the practice, when the United 

 Slates were colonies of Britain, to call every thing that came 

 from there, English; but we soon discovered that the fruits 

 most prized in that conntry, were the accumulated tributes 



