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Transplanted northward, it thrives as far north as 

 Massachusetts. It may be hardy north of that, but 

 I have no records. Chinkapin hybrids bear preco- 

 ciously and in very great abundance and will serve 

 very nicely for intercropping between trees of large 

 and more valuable kinds of nuts, while the latter are 

 growing and getting into bearing age. In the south 

 the chinkapin is attacked so freely by the nut weevils 

 that few nuts are found without larvae. Where the 

 wild trees are abundant in their native region it 

 would seem almost hopeless to dispose of the weevil 

 nuisance. In the north, however, the weevils have 

 not as yet found my chinkapins. 



EUROPEAN CHESTNUT 



The European chestnut blights so readily that we 

 may as well not attempt to do very much with this 

 tree at the present time. The nuts, while large, are 

 of inferior flavor, although valuable for food pur- 

 poses when cooked. Some of the nut orchardists liv- 

 ing out of the range of the blight have developed 

 chestnuts of European kinds which are desirable. 



JAPANESE CHESTNUT 



The Japanese chestnut bears a very coarse nut 

 with little flavor. It furnishes an important food 

 supply in its native country, where the nut practically 

 takes the place of the potato in some of the mountain 

 regions. The tree does not blight quite as readily as 



