. 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. 174 THE JSVT CULTUKI8T. value had been sacrificed in the march of this pro- gressive age. Varieties of the Western Shellbark.—The typical form of the thick or Western shellbark {H. la- ciniosa) has already been shown on a preceding page, but some remarkable and valuable varieties have been found in the "Western States, and no doubt others will be, when more attention is paid than at present to the natural food products of our
. 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. 174 THE JSVT CULTUKI8T. value had been sacrificed in the march of this pro- gressive age. Varieties of the Western Shellbark.—The typical form of the thick or Western shellbark {H. la- ciniosa) has already been shown on a preceding page, but some remarkable and valuable varieties have been found in the "Western States, and no doubt others will be, when more attention is paid than at present to the natural food products of our forests. The tendency of this species, in its variations, is usually in the direction of an elongation of the nuts, even when there is no decrease in the thickness of the shell, as shown in Fig. 65, taken from one of a number of long varieties collected in the West- t em States ; and while they do I not possess any special merit, (they attract attention, owing to their unusual form. Nussbaumee's Hybrid. —Several years ago I received a specimen of a very remark- able nut from Judge Samuel Miller, of BluflEton, Mo., un- der the name of "Nussbaum- er's Hybrid ; Judge Miller informed me that he had received it from Mr. J. J. Nussbaumer, Mascoutah, St. Clair Co., 111., who claimed that it was a hybrid between the pecan and the large western shellbark hick- ory {H. laciniosa). I had an illustration made of this specimen, and it appeared, with a brief description, in the American Agriculturist for Dec, 1884, p. 546. Soon after receiving the specimen nut from Judge Miller I opened correspondence with Mr. Nussbaumer, and learned from him that only one tree bearing such nuts. FIG. 65. LONG WESTERN 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
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