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THE NUT CULTUKIST. 



in Fig. 34, natural 

 direct from Japan, 

 secured these very 



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FIG. 34. JAPAN GIANT CHESTNUT. 



size, and from a specimen received 

 Some of the nurserymen who have 

 large nuts for planting, offer the 

 seedlings raised 

 therefrom under 

 such names as 

 Mammoth and 

 Giant Japan, but 

 as there is no 

 certainty, and 

 scarcely a prob- 

 abSity, that such 

 seedlings will 

 produce nuts as 

 large as those 

 pi an tied, the 

 names are rather misleading, although proper enough if 

 given to grafted varieties of large size. When an extra- 

 fine variety is produced from the nut, it should, of 

 course, be preserved and propagated in the usual way. 

 The late Wm. Parry, of Parry, N. J., was one of 

 the first nurserymen to attempt to produce new varieties 

 of the Japan chestnut in this country, and his sons have 

 continued his experi- 

 ments in this direction. 

 Others may have been 

 equally successful, but I 

 have been unable to ob- 

 tain any satisfactory re- "^ 

 ports from those to 

 whom I have applied for ^^^- ^^■ 

 information ; consequently, I can only say that the fol- 

 lowing, with few exceptions, originated at the Wm. 

 Parry nurseries : 



Adtajtcb (Parry). — Burs medium, slightly flattened 

 on top ; spines medium, short, almost sessile, as shown 



SPINES OF JAPAN CHESTNOT. 



