ON NUT GROWING 
of various nuts upon the attention of agriculturists, 
A study of the market reports shows that nuts of 
many kinds are handled on a commercial scale in 
our cities. 
There should be nothing surprising in this; 
for, of course, in a wide view nuts are fruits, and 
there is no obvious reason why they should not 
have dietetic value. Moreover they are for the 
most part grown on perennial shrubs or trees 
rather than on succulent and perishable annuals, 
and thus have close relationship with the fruits 
of the orchard. 
But the fact that nut bearing trees for the most 
part receive no attention whatever from the culti- 
vator of the soil, their product being gathered only 
casually, has caused them to be regarded as wild 
products not falling within the scope of the horti- 
culturist. In most parts of the United States, in- 
deed, the nut bearing trees have received no atten- 
tion whatever from the cultivator of the soil, and 
their product has been regarded as a more or less 
superfluous luxury, rather than as having dietetic 
consequence. 
In the Gulf States and in California, in recent 
years, there has been a radical change of attitude. 
In these regions the cultivation of nuts is already 
becoming an industry of importance. More re- 
cently, the industry has extended to New York and 
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