. 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. 270 THE NUT CULTtJRIST. The fruit is extremely variable, both in size and form, but mainly globose, and two to four inches in diameter. The shell is Tery hard, and largely used for drinking cups, and these are sometimes highly ornamented on the outside. The kernel is scarcely edible, but is used by the natives as a medicine. JuBA liruT.—See Coquito nut. JuviA NVT.—See Brazil nut. KiPPEK KUT.—See Earth chestnut. LiTCHi NUT OE LEECHE
. 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. 270 THE NUT CULTtJRIST. The fruit is extremely variable, both in size and form, but mainly globose, and two to four inches in diameter. The shell is Tery hard, and largely used for drinking cups, and these are sometimes highly ornamented on the outside. The kernel is scarcely edible, but is used by the natives as a medicine. JuBA liruT.—See Coquito nut. JuviA NVT.—See Brazil nut. KiPPEK KUT.—See Earth chestnut. LiTCHi NUT OE LEECHEB NUT.—I am inclined to think that the aflBx of "nut" to this Oriental fruit is an Americanism, and not used elsewhere. There are three distinct species of this fruit known among the Chinese, under the name of Litchi, Longan or Long- yen, and Eambutan, all the prod- uct of the Nepheliums, a genus of the soapberry family {Sapin- dacece). By some of the earlier botanical works the litchi is placed either in the genus Dimocarpus or Euplioria. Within the past FIG. 103. LITCHI OR f^w ycars this fruit has appeared LEECHEE NUT. jn Qur markets, in consequence of the increased trade with Oriental countries, and facili- ties for rapid transit across the continent. The litchi is a globular fruit, about one inch in diameter (Fig. 103), with a thin, chocolate-brown colored shell covered with wart-like protuberances. When fresh the shell is filled with a white, jelly-like pulp, in the center of which there is one rather large, smooth brown seed. The pulp is of a most delicious sub-acid flavor, but it is often, rather dry and stale in the nuts which reach us from China and Japan. The tree producing this fruit is sel- dom more than twenty-five feet high, with rather sturdy twigs and branches, the leaves composed of about seven oblong pointed leaflets. This is said to be one of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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