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It does well in light-colored, fertile, sandy loams in the warmer portions of 

 the United States. Its principal centers of production in this country are 

 in Virginia and the Carolinas, although it is common in the entire South, 

 west to California. The peanut is common in the markets both in the shell 

 or shelled and salted. Peanut butter and peanut oil are now among the 

 most valuable of our common nut products. (The culture of peanuts is 

 discussed in Chapter 20 of this book.) 



The Pinon {Pin-yon). — The seeds of a number of pines of western 

 and southwestern United States, variously known as pinons, Indian or 

 Pine nuts and pignolia, form a very important article of food for the Indians 



Franql t ette Walnut Orchard, near Santa Rosa, California. 

 This is the famous Vrooman Orchard. 



and the Mexicans of the Southwest, who gather the nuts in enormous quan- 

 tities. In this country the pines bearing edible nuts are not cultivated; 

 the entire crop being obtained from the native trees in the mountains, which 

 usually appear at altitudes of from 5000 to 7000 feet. The home product 

 is largely consumed by the gatherers, and in the local markets of the West. 

 The nuts are brownish in color, usually mottled with yellow, from an eighth 

 to a quarter of an inch in length and have a thin but strong hard shell. 

 The kernels are very fine in texture, rich in quality, of pleasant flavor and 

 highly nutritious. The shelled seeds of the stone pine of southern Europe, 

 greatly resembling puffed rice in form and color, form an important product 

 in the nut markets of our Eastern cities. 



The Persian Walnut. — For many centuries this nut, a native of Persia, 



