. 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. MISCELLANEOUS KUTS. 283 This tallow or grease is used for making soap, burning in lamps, and also for dressing cloth. Tempekance nut.—An English name of cola nut. ToEREY NUT.—The hard, nut-like seeds of Torreya nucifira, of Siebold, or Taxus nucifera, of Ksempfer, and Oaryotaxus nucifera, of Zuccarini, a tree native of Japan, where these nuts are eaten by the Japanese, either raw or roasted. An oil is also extracted from the nuts,
. 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. MISCELLANEOUS KUTS. 283 This tallow or grease is used for making soap, burning in lamps, and also for dressing cloth. Tempekance nut.—An English name of cola nut. ToEREY NUT.—The hard, nut-like seeds of Torreya nucifira, of Siebold, or Taxus nucifera, of Ksempfer, and Oaryotaxus nucifera, of Zuccarini, a tree native of Japan, where these nuts are eaten by the Japanese, either raw or roasted. An oil is also extracted from the nuts, for use in cooking or for burning in lamps. Tliis Japanese tree belongs to the same genus as the so-called California nutmeg (see Nutmeg) and our Florida stink- ing cedar {T. taxifolia), also the great Chinese cedar {T. grandis). Water chestnut.—Also known as water caltrops. The seeds of several species of water plants of the genus Trapa, of the evening prim- rose family {Onagracece). In southern Europe and eastward there is a species found in ponds, '^«'-i"'" ^a™« ches^ut. the seeds of which are called Jesuit chestnuts {T. na- tans), and in India and Ceylon a closely allied one, the Singhara-nut plant {^T. hispinosa), while in Lago Maggiore there is another (71 verianensis), but all may be varieties of one and the same species, including the Trapa hicornis, a two-horned water chestnut, exten- sively used in China and Japan as food under various local names. In China they are called Ling, and of late years have been occasionally imported and sold, more as curiosities than for eating. These seeds or nuts are of a dark brown color, and of the form and size shown in Fig. 107, resembling, iu miniature, the skull of. 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, 1828-1
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