. Guide to hardy fruits and ornamentals . Fruit-culture. 48 DWYER'S GUIDE. WALNUTS. Japan Walnut (Sieboldiana).âA native of the mountains of Japan. An extremely hardy, vigorous grower, bears young, very productive. Japan Walnut (Cordiformis).â Differs from Sieboldiana in form. The nuts are broad, pointed and flattened. The Japan Walnuts are valu- able for both their fine fruit and shade. English Walnut.âIt is a profitable tree to plant, as it produces large crops of excellent nuts, and the large quantities of ripe nuts that are annually impoirted and sold here, prove the estimation in which th
. Guide to hardy fruits and ornamentals . Fruit-culture. 48 DWYER'S GUIDE. WALNUTS. Japan Walnut (Sieboldiana).âA native of the mountains of Japan. An extremely hardy, vigorous grower, bears young, very productive. Japan Walnut (Cordiformis).â Differs from Sieboldiana in form. The nuts are broad, pointed and flattened. The Japan Walnuts are valu- able for both their fine fruit and shade. English Walnut.âIt is a profitable tree to plant, as it produces large crops of excellent nuts, and the large quantities of ripe nuts that are annually impoirted and sold here, prove the estimation in which they are held for the table. English Filbert, or Hazlenut.âNut nearly round, rich and of excellent flavor, admired for dessert. Superior to our native Hazlenut. In every way the nuts are larger, fully as good in flavor. The trees are good strong growers, fome into bearing a short time after being planted and are annual productive THE STRAWBERRY, " Queen of the Small ; My life has been more closely associated with the Strawberry than with any other fruit. At this period and after a protracted and uninter- rupted experience of thirty-five years the reference to this fruit always brings back pleasant memories of my boyhood days; the reader will therefore, I trust, be considerate and indulgent with me, if I transgress here, and for the moment lay aside the original purpose of this work to recall some of my early reminiscences. It was in 1865 when I was nine years of age that I first saw a bed of cultivated Strawberries. At that time I was employed grazing cows along the public highway, our own cow and any of the neighbor's that "were willing to pay my father twenty-five cents a week per head for my services. Whilst thus engaged, and sitting on a stone wall in front of the â small fruit farm of Mr. John Sutherland (long since gone to his reward) I was attracted by this bed of Strawberries in their early stages of development. It is perhaps needles
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