. The nut culturist : a treatise on the propagation, planting and cultivation of nut-bearing trees and shrubs, adapted to the climate of the United States ... Nuts. 176 THE NUT CULTURIST. had eyer been found, and this was of large si^e, six and a half feet in circumference, and about fifty feet high, the bark somewhat like that of the hickory but nearer the pecan. Mr. Nussbaumer sent me specimens of tlje green nuts with leaves and twigs, from the original tree. The nuts, however, of that season (1884:), were badly infested with the "hickory-shuck worm^ (^Orapholitha caryana, Fitch), and t
. The nut culturist : a treatise on the propagation, planting and cultivation of nut-bearing trees and shrubs, adapted to the climate of the United States ... Nuts. 176 THE NUT CULTURIST. had eyer been found, and this was of large si^e, six and a half feet in circumference, and about fifty feet high, the bark somewhat like that of the hickory but nearer the pecan. Mr. Nussbaumer sent me specimens of tlje green nuts with leaves and twigs, from the original tree. The nuts, however, of that season (1884:), were badly infested with the "hickory-shuck worm^ (^Orapholitha caryana, Fitch), and these had so ruined the shucks, and even eaten into the shells of the nuts, that few of the specimens received were fully developed. But from two nuts I had a sketch made while they were fresh and of natural size, as shown in Pig. 66, the dark, irregular marks on the husks showing where the shuck worm had attacked them. One of these nuts is shown in Pig. 67, also natural size. I planted one of the nuts, from which I now have a tree about ten feet high, but although ten years old it has not fruited, and, so far as I can judge from its appearance, is a pure Western shellbark, with no indication of hybridity; but of course this does not prove that NussBAUMER's HYBRID, thc Original or parent tree is not a hybrid, as claimed by Mr. Nussbaumer, Judge Miller, and, if I am rightly informed. Prof. T. J. Burrill, of the University of Illinois. However widely opinions may difEer in regard to the origin of this variety, it is certainly a most remark- able nut, and I regret that the exact location of the original tree has entirely escaped my most careful seek- ing ; and of late years I have been unable to learn any- thing of Mr. Nussbaumer, further than that he had moved from Mascoutah to Okawville, 111., the last letter. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustration
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