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THE NUT CULTUKIST. 



half inches or more long by a little more than one inch 

 broad in the middle; husk thin, downy or clammy; nut 

 somewhat compressed, the point usually bending to one 

 side ; shell smooth, with two sliallow grooves from base 

 upward on the sides opposite to the sharp, prominent 

 ridges at the seams of the two lobes, the shell ending in 

 a strong, sharp point (Fig. 85). The shell is very hard 

 and thick ; the kernel small, sweet, oily, resembling in 

 taste our common butternut ; tree a rapid and stocky 

 grower, the coarse shoots and 

 large leaves resembling those of 

 the Ailantus tree at first, but 

 soon spreading branches appear, 

 forming an open, roundish head. 

 The seedlings, as raised here, are 

 abundantly supplied with small 

 fibrous roots, which insures 

 transplanting with safety. Ap- 

 parently perfectly hardy in our 

 Northern States, as I have heard 

 FIG.85.JUGLANSSIEBOLDIANA110 complaints of wintcrkiUing 

 of the young trees, although they are now widely dis- 

 tributed and in considerable numbers, but none, so far 

 as I have been able to learn, have reached a bearing age 

 here in the North. 



Mr. P. C. Berckmans, of Augusta, Ga., in writing 

 me under date of Dec. 3, 1894, says: "Last year we 

 fruited Juglans Sieholdiana trees four years from the 

 seed. Fruit was produced in long clusters, and trees 

 exceedingly ornamental, but this year these same trees 

 were killed to the ground on the 26th of March, .after 

 they had set a crop of fruit and made a young growth of 

 more than twelve inches. This untimely frost may not 

 happen again in years, but it goes to show that many 

 varieties of trees which are considered hardy further 

 north, are sometimes destroyed here by spring frosts." 



