LUTHER BURBANK 
finest quality for the use of lumbermen and cabi- 
net-makers. Of course the latter fact is of inci- 
dental interest only to the grower of nuts; yet it is 
not quite a negligible factor. And, from another 
standpoint, obviously, the wood-producing capaci- 
ties of the new trees have a high degree of 
importance. 
These and a few other transformations in the 
nut bearing trees, brought about by careful select- 
ive breeding, have, as I said, prepared the way for 
an entire change of attitude of the horticulturist 
toward the question of producing nuts as a busi- 
ness, comparable to the business of the fruit 
grower. 
THE Foop VALuE or Nuts 
Meantime there has been a marked change of 
attitude on the part of the medical profession, and, 
following them, of the general public, as to the 
value of nuts in the dietary. 
In point of fact, nuts have substantial merits 
as food-stuffs, and these merits are yearly coming 
to be more fully recognized. In the older coun- 
tries, nuts have already assumed—indeed have 
long held—a position of economic importance, and 
convincing evidence of their growing recognition 
in America is found in the reports of experiment 
stations of the Agricultural Bureau, which in re- 
cent years have from time to time urged the merits 
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