. 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. 233 THE NUT CULTUKIST. ing in America, and this has recently come into pro- fuse bearing on the Burbank experimental farm, eight miles from Santa Eosa, California. According to good authority, this Japanese walnut not only attains its greatest perfection in this favored climate, but it thrives equally well in countries too cold for the common walnut, /. regia. In its wild state in Japan, the Juglans Sieboldiana (whose curious racem
. 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. 233 THE NUT CULTUKIST. ing in America, and this has recently come into pro- fuse bearing on the Burbank experimental farm, eight miles from Santa Eosa, California. According to good authority, this Japanese walnut not only attains its greatest perfection in this favored climate, but it thrives equally well in countries too cold for the common walnut, /. regia. In its wild state in Japan, the Juglans Sieboldiana (whose curious raceme of nuts is shown in Fig. 80) makes a wide-spreading tree about fifty feet in bight, with pale, furrowed bark; nuts an inch and a half long, with a diameter one-third less, and a kernel having much the flavor of the com- mon walnut. The tree bearing so thriftily on Califor- nia soil, suggests its \ possible value as - a » marketable nut, while it already fur- nishes a remarkable addition to horticul- tural ; Juglans ni- GEA, Linn. Black Walnut .—Leaflets FIG. 81. BLACK wAiNUT IN HUSK. clcven to sevcntecn, rarely more; ovate-lanceolate, smooth above, moderately pubescent beneath, pointed, somewhat heart-shaped at the base; leafstalks slightly downy, usually of a pale purplish color early in the season, especially on young trees; fruit large, mostly globose (Pig. 81); husk thin, roughly dotted; shell thick, hard, deeply and unevenly corrugated with rough, sharp ridges and points (Fig. 82); kernel large, sweet, but usually with a strong, rather rank taste, but less oily than the 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 Fuller, Andrew Samuel, 1828-1896. New York : Orange Judd
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