THE CHESTNUT BEARING NUTS 

 AT Six MONTHS 



A TREE WHICH RESPONDS TO EDUCATION 



WHEN a boy in Massachusetts, I used to 

 observe the great variation among the 

 native American chestnuts in my 

 father's wood lots. Like most boys I was fond of 

 nuts, and in gathering them I soon learned that 

 there were certain trees that bore large, glossy, 

 rich brown nuts with sweet toothsome meats, and 

 that there were other trees that bore only small, 

 flat, ash-colored nuts of insignificant size and 

 inferior quality. 



I observed that the trees that bore these seem- 

 ingly quite different nuts differed also in size and 

 in foliage. And I particularly noted that such 

 variations were not seemingly due to any local 

 conditions, inasmuch as the trees bearing fine nuts 

 and those bearing poor ones might stand side by 

 side. 



I noted similar variations regarding a good 



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