CHAPTER IX.
MISCELLANEOUS NUTS--EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE, 254
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Fig. Page. 1. A California almond orchard, 18 2. Budding knife, 24 3. Yankee budding knife, 24 4. Prepared shoot, 26 5. Incision for bud, 27 6. Bud in position, 28 7. Hard-shelled almond, 36 8. Thin-shelled almond, 37 9. Beechnut leaf, bur and nut, 51 10. Leaves and nut of Castanopsis chrysophylla, 56 11. Castanopsis bur, 57 12. Chestnut flowers, 61 13. Splice graft, 75 14. Splice graft inserted, 75 15. Stock, 77 16. Cion, 77 17. Two cions inserted, 77 18. One cion inserted, 77 19. American chestnut leaf, 88 20. Spike of burs of bush chinquapin (_Castanea nana_), 89 21. Spike of chinquapin chestnut bur (_C. pumila_), 90 22. Single bur, nut and leaf of chinquapin chestnut (_C. pumila_), 91 23. Japan chestnut leaf, 92 24. Burs of Fuller's chinquapin (one-half natural size), 97 25. Fuller's chinquapin, five years old from nut, 98 26. Bur of Numbo chestnut, 101 27. Spines of Numbo chestnut, 102 28. Numbo chestnut, 102 29. Paragon chestnut bur (one-half natural size), 103 30. Spines of Paragon chestnut bur, 103 31. Paragon chestnut, 104 32. Four-year-old Paragon chestnut tree, 105 33. Open bur of the Ridgely chestnut, 106 34. Japan Giant chestnut, 110 35. Spines of Japan chestnut, 110 36. Chestnut weevil, 114 37. Large filbert, 119 38. Large seedling hazelnut, 120 39. Constantinople hazel, 129 40. English filbert orchard, five years from seed, 134 41. Varieties of filberts and hazel seedlings, 135 42. Extra large hazel seedling or round English filbert, 136 43. Filbert orchard struck with blight, fifth year from seed,137 44. Hazel fungus, 141 45. Fourteen-years-old pecan tree in Mississippi, 154 46. Leaf and sterile catkins of shellbark hickory, 156 47. Western shellbark, 158 48. Section Western shellbark, 158 49. Leaf of pignut, 161 50. Bitternut branch and leaf, 163 51. Bitternut, 164 52. Large, long pecan nut, 166 53. Oval pecan nut, 166 54. Small oval pecan nut, 167 55. Little Mobile pecan nut, 167 56. Stuart pecan nut, 169 57. Van Deman pecan nut, 169 58. Risien pecan nut, 169 59. Lady Finger pecan nut, 169 60. The original Hales' Paper-shell hickory tree, 171 61. Hales' hickory, 172 62. Section of Hales' hickory, 172 63. Long shellbark hickory, 173 64. Shellbark Missouri, 173 65. Long Western shellbark, 174 66. Fresh Nussbaumer hybrid, 175 67. Nussbaumer's hybrid, 176 68. Crown grafting on roots of the hickory, 189 69. Sprouts from severed hickory roots, 190 70. The hickory-twig girdler, 196 71. Hickory borer, 198 72. Burrows of hickory scolytus, 200 73. Persian walnut, showing position of sexual organs, 204 74. Bearing branch of English walnut, 205 75. Seedling walnut, 216 76. Flute budding, 220 77. Flowering branch of hybrid walnut, 228 78. Hybrid walnut, 230 79. Hybrid walnut, shell removed, 230 80. Juglans Sieboldiana raceme, 231 81. Black walnut in husk, 232 82. Juglans nigra, husk removed, 233 83. Juglans Californica, 235 84. Juglans rupestris, showing small kernel, 235 85. Juglans Sieboldiana, 238 86. Juglans cordiformis, 239 87. Small fruited walnut, 240 88. Barthere walnut, 242 89. Chaberte walnut, 242 90. Chile walnut, 242 91. Cut-leaved walnut, 243 92. Gibbons walnut, 244 93. Mayette walnut, 245 94. Kernel of walnut, 245 95. Juglans regia octogona, 245 96. Cross section, 245 97. Parisienne walnut, 246 98. Serotina or St. John walnut, 247 99. The caterpillar of the regal walnut moth, 252 100. The regal walnut moth--Citheronia regalis, 252 101. Brazil nut, 258 102. The cashew nut, 260 103. Litchi or Leechee nut, 270 104. Branch of nut pine, 277 105. Paradise or sapucaia nut, 279 106. Souari nut, 281 107. Water chestnut, 283