. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. J^UTS. 439 kind of grafting. Chestnuts may be grafted, however, in favorable seasons with a loss of not over twenty-five to fifty per cent, by the " cleft" process (pages 33 and 438). Two or three year old seedlings, or young sprouts, are most favora- ble subjects; put the graft in high up, so that the native stock shall form the trunk of the tree. As soon as specific varieties are demanded nurserymen will have recourse to all these methods.
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. J^UTS. 439 kind of grafting. Chestnuts may be grafted, however, in favorable seasons with a loss of not over twenty-five to fifty per cent, by the " cleft" process (pages 33 and 438). Two or three year old seedlings, or young sprouts, are most favora- ble subjects; put the graft in high up, so that the native stock shall form the trunk of the tree. As soon as specific varieties are demanded nurserymen will have recourse to all these methods. Native walnuts, pecans, and hickories do not bear much be- fore they are fifteen or twenty years old. Chestnuts usually bear at about ten or twelve years; foreign varieties bear earlier, as do all budded and grafted trees, but then they are always shorter-lived. In the Southern States most nut trees will produce crops in five or six years. CHESTNUTS. Native Varieties. The American Sweet Chestnut is the only one really entitled to be called sweet; it is much superior in flavor to both the European and Japanese kinds, though as yet it cannot approach. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob); Wood, William H. S. New York, Orange Judd
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