LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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A Calif oiiiia almond orchard, 



Budding knife, ..... 



Yankee budding knife. 



Prepared shoot, ..... 



Incision for bud, .... 



Bud in position, . . , . 



Hard-slielled almond, .... 



Tliin-slielled almond, .... 



Beechnut leaf, bur and nut, . 



Leaves and nut of Castanopsis clirysophylla; 



Castanopsis bur, .... 



Chestnut flowers, ..... 



Splice graft, ..... 



Splice graft inserted, 



Stock, ..... 



Clou, .... . , 



Two cions inserted, .... 



One cion inserted, .... 



American chestnut leaf, .... 



Spike of burs of bush chinquapin (Castanea noma). 



Spike of chinquapin chestnut bur (C pwmila), . 



Single bur, nut and leaf of cliinquapiu chestnut (C 



Japan chestnut leaf, ..... 



Burs of Fuller's chinquapin (one-half natural size). 



Fuller's chinquapin, five years old from nut, . 



Bur of Nunibo chestnut, 



Spines of Numbo chestnut, . 



Numbo oliestnut, 



Paragon chestnut bur (one-half natural size), 



Spines of Paragon chestnut bur, 



Paragon chestnut, .... 



Four-year-old Paragon chestnut tree, . 



Open bur of the Ridgely chestnut, 



Japan Giant chestnut, 



Spines of Japan chestnut, 



Cbestniit weevil, .... 



Tjarge filbert, ..... 



Large seedling hazelnut, . 



Constantinople hazel, 



English filbert orchard, five years from seed, 



Varieties of filberts and hazel seedlings, 



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