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laden with nuts of enormous size, measuring four to six inches around and funning three to seven in a bur. 
Their early bearing and great productiveness of enormous nuts 
are the wonder and admiration of all who see them. #i each, 
$10 per dozen. 
American Sweet. A valuable native tree, both useful and orna* 
mental ; timber is very durable, and possesses a line grain for oil 
finish. Nuts sweet, of delicate flavor, and are a valuable article 
of commerce. No farm should be without its grove of nut-bearing 
trees, and the chestnut should be foremost wherever the soil is 
adapted to its growth. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per dozen. 
Spanish. A handsome, round-headed tree, producing abundantly 
very large nuts, that find a ready market at good prices. $25 have 
been realized at one fruiting from the nuts of a single tree. 50 cts. 
each, $4 per dozen. 
Nuinbo Chestnut. An improved variety, producing very large 
fruit. First-class, 75 cts. each. 
PECAN. 
japan chestnut. (See page 44.) 
Paper Shell. A beautiful, symmetrical and rapid-growing tree ; of luxuriant foliage, which it retains late in 
the fall , producing valuable timber and heavy crops of sweet, oblong, smooth nuts of very good quality. 
50 cts. each, $4 per dozen. 
ALHONDS. 
Hard Shell. A fine, hardy variety, with a large, plump kernel, and with large, showy, ornamental blossoms. 
25 cts. each, $2.50 per dozen. 
Softor Paper Shell. This is what is known as the “Ladies' Almond, or Lady Finger of the Shops," and 
although preferable to the hard shell, it is not so hardy ; kernels sweet and rich. 25 cts. each, $2.5oper doz. 
FILBERT or HAZELNUT. 
HAZELNUT. 
This is of the easiest culture, and among the most profitable and satisfactory nuts 
to grow ; of dwarf habit ; entirely hardy ; abundant yielder ; succeeding almost every- 
where, and coming into bearing young. 
Kentish Cob. This is one of the finest and largest of filberts ; oblong and of excellent , 
quality. 30 cts. each, $3 per dozen, 
Cosford, Thin Shell. An English variety ; valuable for thinnest of shell and sweetness 
of kernel. 30 cts. each, $3 per dozen. 
English. The sort usually sold at the fruit stands. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per dozen. 
JAPAN WALNUT. 
This species is found growing wild in the mountains of northern Japan, and is without doubt as hardy as an 
oak. The leaves are of immense size, and of a charming shade of green. The nuts, which are produced in 
extreme abundance, grow in clusters of fifteen or twenty ; have a shell thicker than the English walnut, but not 
so thick as the black walnut. The meat is sweet ; of the very best quality ; flavor like butternut, but less oily, 
and much superior. The trees grow with great vigor, assuming a very handsome form, and need no pruning ; 
mature early ; bear young, and are more regular and productive than the English 
walnut ; having an abundance of fibrous roots it transplants as safely as an apple 
tree. No tree on my grounds has attracted more attention than the Japan Walnut. 
50 cts. each, $4 per dozen. 
ENGLISH WALNUT or MADEIRA NUT. 
A fine, lofty growing tree, with a handsome spreading head. It is scarcely 
hardy enough here, but further south it is a profitable tree to plant, as it produces 
large crops of excellent nuts. The fruit in a green state is very highly esteemed 
for picking, and the large quantities of ripe nuts that are annually imported and 
sold here prove the estimation in which it is held for the table. 50 cts. each, $4 
per dozen. 
BUTTERNUT. 
luxuriant, tropical-looking foliage ; very English walnut. 
ornamental ; very productive ; bears young ; nuts differ from 
American Black Walnut in being longer and kernels ofsweetet 
and more delicate flavor. 30 cts. each, $3 per dozen. 
HICKORY SHELLBARK. 
To our taste, no other nut that grows, either foreign or na- 
tive, is superior to this; in quality it possesses a peculiar rich, 
nutty flavor, excelled by none. The tree is of sturdy, lofty 
growth. The wood, on account of its great strength and elastic- 
ity, is highly prized for making agricultural implements 50 cts. 
each, $4 per dozen. 
Tree of rapid growth, with large, 
BUTTERNUT. 
