. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1897. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. NUT CULTURE. and a tin mug of tea, but perhaps it is all they deserve. We saw them locked in their narrow cells for the night, and came away glad to learn from the War- den that gardeners and fruit growers were not found among the Fio. 1041.—Kingston Penitentiary khom Portsmouth. NUT CULTURE. THERE is much encouragement to plant our native nuts and some of the foreign ones. As a rule, our indigenous trees are good bearers, and, in Mr. Van Deman's opinion, they pro- duce nuts of better quality than foreig
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1897. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. NUT CULTURE. and a tin mug of tea, but perhaps it is all they deserve. We saw them locked in their narrow cells for the night, and came away glad to learn from the War- den that gardeners and fruit growers were not found among the Fio. 1041.—Kingston Penitentiary khom Portsmouth. NUT CULTURE. THERE is much encouragement to plant our native nuts and some of the foreign ones. As a rule, our indigenous trees are good bearers, and, in Mr. Van Deman's opinion, they pro- duce nuts of better quality than foreign ones. The Chestnut is receiving much attention now, and there are a few well-marked native varieties of value. Although they are smaller than the Euro- pean varieties, they are of better quality and very productive. The best are De- laney. Excelsior, Griffin, Hathaway, Mor- rell and Otto. Rocky hillsides and other places unsuitable for tillage can be used with profit for nut trees, and they can be set about buildings and in pastures. The European varieties seem more pro- fitable. It seems to be a rule that the more pubescence the nut has the better its quality. European varieties are more fuzzy than the Japanese, and less so than the American sorts. The most promi- nent of these are the Paragon, Numbo, Ridgely and Hannum. Japanese Chest- nut-trees have a more dwarf habit, and the nut has a bitter skin. They graft quite readily on .^merican seedlings, and the best varieties introduced are Alpha, Early Reliance, Grand and Superb. Among the Hickories the best nut-tree is the Pecan, a native of our southern states, and the Shell-bark Hickory, com- mon throughout the north-eastern states. A firm in Pennsylvania ships more than twenty tons of hickory nuts every year. The nuts should be planted in rough places four feet apart each way and thin- ned as they grow. Seedlings are variable, and so they must be grafted. The prin- cipal varieties are Hale's, a large thin- shelled sort, L
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