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Amygdalus argentea, 39
Cochinchinensis, 38
communis amara, 34
dulcis, 35
fragilis, 36
macrocarpa, 37
persicoides, 37
incana, 39
nana, 39
orientalis, 39

Anacardium occidentale, 260

Apios tuberosa, 267

Arachis hypogaea, 275

Aralia trifolia, 266

Areca catechu, 256

Atherosperma moschata, 274

Attalea funifera, 264

Australian chestnut, 255

Australian hazelnut, 256

Aydendron cujumary, 274

Beech, American, 48
Chile, 48
European, 48
evergreen, 48
history of, 44
injurious insects, 52
properties and uses, 52
propagation of, 47
soil and location for the, 47
species and varieties, 48

Beechnut, 44
leaf, bur and nut, 51

Ben nut, 256

Bertholletia excelsa, 267

Betel nut, 256

Bladder nut, 257

Brazil nut, 257

Brazilian nutmegs, 273, 274

Bread nut, 258

Brosimum alicastrum, 258

Buffalo nut, 259

Bunium bulbocastanum, 265

Butternut, 259, 280

Byzantium nut, 259

California chestnut, 55

California nutmeg, 275

Calodendron Capense, 259

Candle nut, 259

Cape chestnut, 259

Caryocar nuciferum, 280

Caryotaxus nucifera, 283

Cashew nut, 260

Castanea chrysophylla var. minor, 57

Castanea chrysophylla var. pumila, 57

Castanea sempervirens, 55

Castanopsis, 55
bur, 57
chrysophylla, 55
leaves and nuts, 56

Castanospermum Australe, 255

Caucasian walnut, 261

Chestnut, 60
budding, 80
diseases of the, 116
distance between trees, 82
European varieties of, 99
Comfort, 100
Cooper, 100
Corson, 100
Dager, 101
Moncur, 101
Numbo, 102
spines of, 102
Miller's Dupont, 102
Paragon, 102
bur, 103
nut, 104
spines of, 103
tree, four years old, 105
Ridgely, 104
bur, 106
Scott, 107
Styer, 108
flowers, 61
French variety of the, 108
gathering and assorting, 65
grafting, 71
cleft, 77
growth of cion, 78
large trees, 79
materials, 72
modes of, 75
season for, 71
splice, 75
sprouts, 79
success in, 78
wax, 72
history of the, 62
insects injurious to, 113
Balaninus carytripes, 113
weevil, 114
Japan, 109
Advance, 110
Alpha, 111
Beta, 111
Early Reliance, 111
Felton, 111
Giant, 110, 111
Killen, 112
Parsons, 112
Parry's Superb, 112
Success, 112
mulching, 82
native varieties of the, 94
burless, 94
bush chinquapin, 96
common chinquapin, 97
Fuller's chinquapin, 97
chinquapin burs, 97
chinquapin tree, 98
Hathaway, 95
Phillips, 95
planting, 68
in nursery rows, 69
propagation of the, 64
seedbed and soil for, 67
soil and climate for, 83
species of, 86
American, 88
species bush chinquapin, 89
Castanea Americana, 88
Japonica, 93
nana, 89
pumila, 90, 91
sativa, 91
vesca, 91
European, 91
Japan, 93
leaf, 92
staking transplanted trees, 81
stocks from the forests, 70
transplanting and pruning, 80
uses of, 119

Chile hazelnut, 268

Chocolate nut or bean, 261

Clearing nut, 262

Clove nutmeg, 274

Cocoanut, 262
double, 263

Cocos nucifera, 262

Cola acuminata, 264
nut, 264

Coquito nut, 264

Coquilla nut, 264

Cream nut, 265

Crescentia cujete, 269

Cryptocarya moschata, 274

Cujumary beans, 274

Dawa nut, 265

Dimocarpus longana, 271

Earth nut, 265
chestnut, 265

Elk nut, 265

Euryale ferox, 265

Evergreen chestnut, 55

Fagus antarctica, 48
betuloides, 48
ferruginea, 48
obliqua, 48
sylvatica, 48

Fisticke nut, 265

Filbert or hazelnut, 118

Fox nut, 265

Galeruca calmariensis, 5

Ginkgo biloba, 265
nut, 265

Goober, 275

Goora nut, 264

Gorgon nut, 266

Groundnut, 266, 267, 275

Guevina Avellana, 268

Guilandina bouduc, 273
bonducella, 273

Hamiltonia oleifera, 275

Hazelnut or filbert, 118
American species of hazel, 126
beaked hazel, 127
Corylus Americana, 126
Corylus rostrata, 127
Asiatic species of hazel, 128
C. ferox & heterophylla, 128
blight, 138
Cryptospora anomala, 139
fungus, 141
European species of, 127
Constantinople hazel, 129
Corylus Avellana, 127
Colurna, 128
tubulosa, 130
history of the filbert, 120
insects injurious to filberts, 145
personal experience with filberts, 132
planting and pruning filberts, 124
propagation of the filbert, 122
soil, location, etc., for filberts, 123
varieties of filbert and hazel seedlings, 135
varieties extra large hazel seedling, 136
varieties large filbert, 119
large seedling hazelnut, 120
select list of, 130
Alba or white filbert, 130
Cosford, or Miss Young's thin-shelled, 130
Crispa, or frizzled filbert, 130
Downton, large square, 130
Grandis, or round cob-nut, 131
Lambert's filbert, 130
Purple-leaved filbert, 131
red filbert, red hazel, etc., 131
Spanish filbert, 132

Horse-chestnut, 268

Hickory nuts, 147
age of fruiting the, 193
big bud, 160
big shellbark, 157
bitter pecan, 165
bitternut, 163, 164
brown, 162
budding and grafting, 183
crown, on roots, 189
sprouts from roots, 190
Carya amara var. myristicaeformis, 165
Carya olivaeformis, 155
cultivation of the, 177
Hicoria pecan and synonyms, 155
Hicoria alba, 155
" " synonyms, 157
Hicoria aquatica, 165
" " synonyms, 166
Hicoria glabra, 162
" " synonyms, 164
Hicoria laciniosa, 157
" " synonyms, 159
Hicoria minima, 164
" " synonyms, 165
Hicoria myristicaeformis, 165
Hicoria tomentosa, 160
" " synonyms, 162
history of the, 148
hognut, 162
Illinois nut, 155
insect enemies of the, 195
American silk worm, 202
Attacus luna, 202
belted chion, 199
bud worm, 202
burrows of scolytus, 200
Catocala, 202
Chion cinctus, 199
Chramesus icoriae, 201
Clisiocampa sylvatica, 202
Cyllene crinicornis, 198
pictus, 198
robiniae, 198
Elaphidion inerme, 199
Goes, beautiful, 199
pulchra, 199
tiger, 199
tigrinus, 199
Grapholitha caryana, 201
bark borer, 199
nut weevil, 202
shuck worm, 201
twig girdler, 196
leaf miners, 202
leaf rollers, 202
locust borer, 198
luna moth, 202
Oncideres cingulatus, 196
orange sawyer, 199
painted borer, 198
plant lice, 202
Scolytus 4-spinosus, 199
Sinoxylon basilare, 201
Telea polyphemus, 202
tent caterpillar, 202
Tortricidae, 201
king nut, 160
mocker nut, 160
Pecan nut, 155
varieties of, 167
Alba, 167
Biloxi, 167
Colorado, 169
Columbian, 167
Early Texan, 168
Faust, 168
Frotscher, 168
Georgia Melon, 168
Gonzales, 168
Harcourt, 168
Idlewild, 169
Jewett, 169
Lady Finger, 169
large, long, 167
Little Mobile, 167
Longfellow, 168
Pride of the Coast, 169
Primate, 168
Mexican, 169
Meyers, 170
Ribera, 168
Risien, 169
Stuart, 169
Turkey Egg, 169
Van Deman, 169
pignut 162, 164
planting for profit, 194
propagation of the, 180
shellbark or shagbark, 155
varieties of, 170
Hales' paper-shell, 172
long hickory, 173
from Missouri, 173
Western, varieties of, 174
Floyd pecan, 177
long, 174
Nussbaumer's, 174-176
species and varieties, 224
swamp hickoria, 164, 165
switch bud, 162
thick, or western shellbark, 157, 158
white-heart, 160

Inocarpus edulis, 282

Introduction, 1

Importation of nuts, 8

Imported nuts, value of, 9

Ita palm nut, 271

Ivory nut, 269

Jesuit chestnuts, 269, 283

Jicara nut, 269

Juba nut, 270

Jubaea spectabilis, 264

Juvia nut 258, 270

Kipper nut, 270

Kola nut, 264

Laurelia sempervirens, 275

Lecythis Zabucajo, 279

Leechee nut, 270

Litchi nut, 270

Lodoicea Sechellarum, 263

Longan, 270

Longyen, 270

Lousy nut, 271

Macadamia ternifolia, 256

Madagascar nutmeg, 274

Marking nut, 271

Mauritia flexuosa, 271

Miriti nut, 271

Miscellaneous nuts, 254

Monkey-pot nut, 272

Moreton Bay chestnuts, 255

Moringa optera, 256
pterygosperma, 256

Myristica fatua, 273
fragrans, 273
otoba, 274
sebifera, 274

Myrobalan nut, 272

Nectandy puchury, 274

Nelumbium luteum, 284

Nephelium pinnatum, 271

Nepheliums, 271

Nickar nut, 272

Nittar, or Nutta, 273

Nuces vel Poma Pinea, 277

Nutmeg, 273

Nutmeg hickory, 165

Nyssa capitata, 282

Oak nut, 254

Oil nut 265, 275

Olea Americana, 276

Openawk, 267

Ophiocaryon paradoxum, 280

Paradise nut, 275

Parkia Africana, 273

Peanut, 275

Pekea nut, 275

Peruvian nut, 275
nutmeg, 274

Phytelephas macrocarpa, 269

Physic nut, 276

Pinang, 256

Pine nut, 276

Pinocchi, 277

Pinolas, 277

Pinon, 277

Pinus cembroides, 277
edulis, 277
monophylla, 278
Parryana, 277
pinea, 276

Piper betel, 256

Pistacia Mexicana, 278
vera, 278

Pistachio nut, 278

Plum nutmeg, 274

Pterocarya fraxinifolia, 261

Puchurim beans, 274

Pyrularia oleifera, 275

Quandang nut, 279

Qudria heterophylla, 268

Queensland nut, 256

Quercus virens, 255

Raffia, or Roffia, 25

Rambutan, 270

Salisburia adiantifolia, 265

Santalum acuminatum, 279

Sapucaia nut, 279

Sardis nut, 63

Sassafras nut, 280

Semecarpus anacardium, 271

Singhara-nut plant, 283

Snake nut, 280

Sonari nut, 280

South Sea chestnut, 282

Staphylea trifolia, 257

Stillingia sebifera, 282

Stinking nutmeg, 275

Strychnos potatorum, 262

Tahitian chestnut, 282

Tallow nut, 282

Tavola nut, 282

Taxus nucifera, 283

Temperance nut, 283

Terminalia Catappa, 272

Theobroma cacao, 261

Torrey nut, 283

Torreya Californica, 275
nucifera, 283

Trapa bicornis, 283
bispinosa, 283
natans, 283
verbanensis, 283

Walnut, 203
American, 224
black, 232
black, in husk, 232
varieties of, 233
butternut, 224
sugar, 227
varieties of, 225
California, 234
Carya cathartica, 225
Juglans Californica, 234
cathartica, 225
cinerea, 224
hybrida, 225
oblonga alba, 225
nigra, 232
nigra, husk removed, 233
nigra oblonga, 233
rupestris, 235
New Mexico, 235
Texas, 235
Wallia cinerea, 225
white, 224
budding and grafting, 218
flute, 220
history, 203
husking, 250
hybrids in California, 227
flowering branch of, 228
Juglans Californica, 229
Sieboldiana, 231, 237
insect enemies of the, 251
Citheronia regalis, 252
Regal walnut moth, 252
Jovis glans, 203
Juglans, 203
Oriental, 236
Juglans ailantifolia, 237
Camirium, 236
Catappa, 236
cordiformis, 239
Japonica, 236
Mandshurica, 237
Persian, 204
in America, 209
Persian, Barthere, 242
Chaberte, 242
Chile, 240, 242
Cluster, 243
Cut-leaved, 243
English, 240
Franquette, 243
French, 240
Gant, or Bijou, 243
Juglans regia, 240
regia octogona, 245
serotina, 247
Kaghazi, 244
Large-fruited Praeparturiens, 244
Late Praeparturiens, 244
Late, 247
Madeira nut, 240
Mayette, 245
Mesange, or paper-shell, 245
Meylan, 246
Octogona, 246
Parisienne, 246
Praeparturiens, 246
Precocious, 246
Racemosa, or Spicata, 243
Royal, 240
Small fruited, 240
St. John, 247
Variegated, 248
Vilmorin, 247
Vourey, 247
Weeping, 248
planting and pruning, 223
propagation of, 215
seedling, 216

Water chestnut, 269, 283, 284
chinquapin, 284
hickory, 165

Western cashew, 260
chinquapin, 55

Winged-seeded moringa, 256

Winged walnut, 261

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