. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 296 CHESTNUT The varieties of the three species, though possessing many points in common, differ sufficiently in important characteristics to justify separate grouping for cultural discussion. As Chestnut culture is n
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 296 CHESTNUT The varieties of the three species, though possessing many points in common, differ sufficiently in important characteristics to justify separate grouping for cultural discussion. As Chestnut culture is new in this country, it seems best to append descriptions of all the varieties. 435. Chestnut sprouts two years crafted. The cion was inserted where branching begins. which are in the American trade. For fuller discussion of cultivated Chestnuts, see Nut Culture in the United States {Bull. Div. of Pomology, U. S. Dept. of Agric), from which Fig. 4H4 is adapted ; Nut Culturist, A. S. Fuller, 1896 ; European and Japanese Chestniits in Eastern U. G. Harold Powell (BuU. Del. Exp. Sta- tion), 1898; Nut Culture for Profit, Jno. R. Parry, 1897. American Ghoup.—Though the wild nuts exhibit wide varia- tions in size, form, quality, productiveness, and season of ripen- ing, but few varieties have been dignified by names and propa- gated. Solitary trees are frequently sterile, though producing both staminate and pistUlate flowers, apparently requiring cross-fertilization to insure f ruitfulness. This is especially true of planted trees of this species on the Pacific slope, where pro- ductive trees are reported to be rare. The susceptibility of the species to injiurbyleaf diseases, as pointed out by Powell, and the injury to nuts by larvae of weevils, are drawbacks to its ex- tensive culture. The following varieties are propagated to some extent: 2>uiawei/.—Bowling Green, Ky. Large, and of fine quality. Original tree productive, though isolated. Gn'ffm.—Griffin, Ga. Alarge,very
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