The butternut curculio[11] attacks native butternuts and introduced nuts of a similar type.
In Old Ontario the people enjoyed the local wild black walnuts, butternuts and hickory.
President Weschcke reports that butternuts on black walnut stocks have their blooming retarded for a few days.
Some of the hazels and butternuts are reported as able, for a time at least, to establish themselves in such soils, but their fight for survival seems precarious and is apparently short-lived.
Graves thinks it possible that butternuts grafted on black walnut stocks may have their vigor increased sufficiently to help in warding off the disease.
T-told him how Ephraim shook butternuts off my fathers tree--for all I know.
In the morning he had walked into the country, first providing himself with butternutsand rawhide boots and a bowie-knife.
A Colfax of St. Louis in butternuts and rawhide boots?
There is an old man, selling the meats of butternuts under the stoop of the hotel.
In every case where I found any trees bearing those so-called Japanese butternuts they were grown from nuts, Japanese walnuts, which had been grown in this country.
People want to know where they can get nuts, butternuts and hickory nuts.
The chinkapin is a coming nut; the school children are looking for them like I used to look for the butternuts in the early days.
Aunt Deel and Uncle Peabody were coming in from the pasture lot with sacks of butternuts on a wheelbarrow.
Even then our hands were busy making lighters or splint brooms, or paring and quartering and stringing the apples or cracking butternuts while Aunt Deel read.
The butternuts and Mr. Didenhover were forgotten at last.
Fleda drew a long breath, and gave a hard look at the distant wagon, where her butternuts were going in by handfuls.
And Seth has sent you plenty of your favourite hickory nuts, very fine ones; and I gathered butternuts enough for you near home.
Dates may be prepared in this way, and butternuts and English walnuts also.
But there has been no evidence of contagion from this Jap to the other Japanese, butternuts and black walnut in the same planting in the immediate neighborhood--in fact, they crowd each other.
The common wild butternuts are really difficult to handle.
I got shelled butternuts before the war, but since the war they don't have the trade, but if they could get them, I think that would be the company that would take them.
The butternuts also have the fruit and leaves covered with sticky hairs instead of being smooth.
I feel it is so bad on Japanese walnuts and butternutsthat they shouldn't be propagated in the area.
There are no butternuts or Japanese walnuts on the farm.
I do have a demand for some shelled butternuts which I have trouble getting, and I do have trouble getting shelled hickory nuts.
Sometimes the leaves ofbutternuts are badly distorted with galls caused by mites.
I bring the heartnuts down to Florida, the Fairchild and my hybrid trees and butternuts and Japanese heartnuts, and I have a package of almonds and another package of brazil nuts, and I let them taste those.
After butternuts have been gathered from the wild with some enthusiasm during the fall months, they often remain in the cellar or attic without ever being used.
The butternuts and Mr Didenhover were forgotten at last.
Fleda drew a long breath, and gave a hard look at the distant wagon where her butternuts were going in by handfuls.
Originally, the black walnut furnished the favorite food of this insect, although the husk of butternuts was sometimes attacked.
In summer time, when the fuzzy, green butternuts are scarcely larger than olives, and their shells are so soft that a knitting-needle goes through without any trouble, the time for making pickled nuts has come.
The butternuts are oblong and pointed at one end, and sticky to the touch, differing in this particular from the globular fruits of the black walnut.
From English grandmothers we learned to pickle our own butternuts while the shells are still soft.
We entered Vicksburg in front of Carr's original line, and after many halts among the broken ravines, amongst butternuts swarming on every side, we came into battery of five yards intervals in a little knoll, after dark.
Butternuts leisurely lounging along their breastworks, our men the same, still we knew not what the result would be at the national salute fired with blank cartridge.
If I were planting black walnuts or butternuts I would group them, but see that the tree has in some directions space enough to develop as far as it wishes.
No hickories, no black walnuts or butternuts deemed worthy of experimental propagation appeared as was the case in 1918, but on the other hand, two pecans, the Dunn No.
Butternuts have a range extending further north and they are more subject to disease than the black walnuts.
As a matter of fact the same difficulty exists in distinguishing butternuts and Japan walnuts that exists in distinguishing hickories.
For these purposes the beeches, hickories, hazels, walnuts and butternuts are all valuable, their value being approximately in the order named.
Under the beneficent influence of ample sun, air and root sustenance, the butternuts and black walnuts bore fine crops for the first time, in the season following the winter thinning process.
The Japanese walnuts hybridize freely with other species of walnuts and produce nuts of all types; not infrequently crosses of this kind resemble butternuts so closely as to be practically indistinguishable from them.
Indeed I have received many such hybrids which have been called either butternuts or Japan walnuts.
No more the butternuts aren't, somehow; but I must say, you make out to have good fruit, though how you do it in these times beats me.
Already the butternuts were falling from several large trees on the place, and the burrs on the chestnuts were plump with their well-shielded treasures.
That circular invited the people who had specimens of butternuts that they thought superior to send them to Dr.
This has been the mother of practically all my hybrids between butternuts and other species of walnuts.
In addition to these named varieties I have a number of seedling black walnuts, butternuts and heartnuts, which I hope to topwork to named varieties; also two seedling pecans which are making surprisingly good, thrifty growth.
Yeager of the Horticultural Department of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, has several times called for specimens of superior butternuts grown in the state.
I have some good sized butternuts and I gathered about 17 quarts of these so I expect to have enough nuts to supply my daily needs from now on from my own plantings.
Those gathered by the residents of this state for home use or local consumption are comprised almost entirely of butternuts from wild seedling trees and nuts of the native hickory.
Such a specialist would be the proper person to keep the score cards of the prize-winning black walnuts, hickories, butternuts and English (Persian) walnuts of nut contests held in the state.
However, the unsatisfactory hybrids between black and Persian walnuts, of between butternuts and Persian walnuts should not blind us to the fact that there are many species-hybrids of great pomological value.
When I was a youngster, if I could have received the prices for black walnuts and butternuts that youngsters get now, I would have thought I was a capitalist.
Butternuts are retailing at two dollars and two dollars and a half, and black walnuts the same.
I have traveled about the country lately, and I assure you there is a large crop of Butternuts everywhere: not only that, but the quality and character of the nut is quite as good as the quantity.
At the Democratic jubilee in Butler county over the elections, Mr. Pendleton is reported as saying: "I came up to see if there were any Butternuts in Butler county.
Large nuts, such as black walnuts, butternuts and English walnuts, are often planted with a small part of the nut still exposed.
However, I have planted freshly-gathered black walnuts and butternuts and most of them sprouted.
The nut proved to be even better than the older variety and we intend to test it further by grafting it on butternuts and black walnut stocks.
It is not always easy to obtain black walnuts and butternuts to eat.
The absence of hulls in cracking butternuts not only does away with the messiness usually involved, but also it allows more accurate cracking and more sanitary handling of the kernels.
During their bearing period, these black walnuts had gradually changed in appearance, becoming elongated and very deeply and sharply corrugated like butternuts although they still retained the black walnut flavor.
In their case, however, the most striking change was in the shape and structure of their shells which were elongated like butternuts, with corrugations typical of those found on butternuts and nearly as deep and sharp.
After the hulls are dry, such nuts as black walnuts, English walnuts and butternuts may be put in barrels or burlap bags and stored in an unheated basement without seriously deteriorating.
After walnuts, hickory nuts, butternuts and hazels have been gathered, they should be dried until the hulls have lost most of their moisture.
Butternuts grow over an extended range which makes them the most northern of all our native wild nut trees, although their nuts do not mature as far north as hazelnuts do.
Another possible use is suggested by the shells of butternuts which, even when buried in the ground, show great resistance to decay.
And if you want to come along with me I don't mind stopping to show you where the butternuts are.
To be sure, he knew that the butternuts were up in the attic.
Frisky leaped behind a pile ofbutternuts and hid, while someone walked across the floor.
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