The Mulberries andChinkapin are tough, and trimm'd to what you please, therefore fit Supporters of the Vines.
Chinkapin is a sort of Chesnut, whose Nuts are most commonly very plentiful; insomuch that the Hogs get fat with them.
The Hiccory, Walnut, Chinkapinand Chesnut, with their Fruits, we have mention'd before.
Den it seem lak dey pass on, en ole Brer Wolf, he fergotted w'at he in dar fer, en he dash down ter de chinkapin tree, fer ter git de young sheep.
I will tell you that one species, the Allegany Chinkapin (C.
It is a very important pest in the East and in the Ozark Chinkapin range around chestnut plantings.
But the chinkapin is rounded on both sides, because it is alone in its burr, with nothing to flatten against.
When you read how “Brer Rabbit” sat on a chinkapin log, combing his hair with a chip, you ought to know what a chinkapin log is like.
So he sat on the lady’s knee in the chinkapin patch, and cracked chinkapins, and when he had succeeded in getting a shell off he would give it a toss that sent it far away.
Page 158)] Chinkapins being so small, and only one in a burr, you can imagine they are not easy to gather until Jack Frost comes along with his sharp fingers and splits open all the tiny burrs on all the little chinkapin trees.
The 21 climatic test plots ranged from one to two acres each, and were planted with more than 20 progenies represented, as well as forest-tree chinkapin and some hybrids.
The chinkapin is about three weeks earlier than this variety of chinkapin.
We come back now to Lancaster county to a chinkapin tree, a hybrid chinkapin.
Mr. Reed: Yes, the chestnut and chinkapingrow close together.
Last year I wished to cross the chinkapin with the white oak.
The white oak blossoms more than a month in advance of the chinkapin in Connecticut, and the question was how we could keep the white oak pollen.
That hybrid is the only one of my chinkapin group that has blighted at all.
Theoretically it should not do so, but I noticed one case apparently in which I crossed a chinkapin with a Chinese chestnut, and the nuts of that year seemed to me to present some of the Chinese chestnuts' characteristics.
It killed the chestnut andchinkapin growth over large areas in the southern States.
Several specimens of the golden chinkapin (Castanopsis) of the Pacific Coast, which had made one year's growth here, were killed outright.
It was found that the chinkapinwould develop nuts freely in this way, and that the bitternut hickory, shagbark hickory, and pignut (Hicoria glabra) would develop nuts sparingly in this way.
Three years ago some pistillate chinkapin flowers which had been covered with paper bags, were left unpollenized because I did not have pollen enough to go round.
The above trees are all that remain of a row of 29 Chestnut andChinkapin trees most of which were bearing two years ago, from which a good many quarts of Chestnuts were gathered.
From the same root common chinkapin will keep on bearing year after year.
Some of the hybrids do that while others show the resistance of the chinkapin parent.
Over the rocky places we could plant the chinkapin and hazel.
When it first began to bear, the nuts were of the chinkapin type, a single nut to the bur and hardly to be distinguished from other chinkapins.
In southeastern South Carolina, where the several species of native chinkapin thrive, some of them attaining a height of 20 feet, the Asiatic species have largely failed.
I shall hope to have a chinkapintree as sturdy as the red oak, with nuts larger than acorns and of as good quality as the chinkapin nut.
About a month later when I did take them off I found a full set of chinkapin nuts under those bags.
The native chinkapin tree in Missouri grows to large size in good soil and it may be found as one of the largest forest trees on the stony ridge lands of southwestern sections of the Ozark Mountains.
The chinkapin of this area is highly resistant to the blight and some of the hybrids carry the resistant quality and bear nuts of good size and high quality.
Named varieties of the chinkapin are not available at this time.
In fact, the western chinkapinmay be used successfully as a stock for the chestnut.
Both the chinkapin and chestnut may be grafted or budded one upon the other.
Finally, we have this year succeeded in making a cross between Castanea henryi, the Henry Timber Chinkapin from southern and central China, which is said to attain a height of 90 feet, and C.
The native chinkapin forests especially of southwest Missouri are valued highly not only for their nuts but particularly for post timber.
West of the Mississippi River, the Ozark chinkapin tree may reach a height of sixty feet in good soil, while the other form (Allegany chinkapin) in the eastern range grows to a height of about 15 feet.
Four young trees of the golden chinkapin of the Pacific Coast were planted and grew well the first summer, but all four were killed by the first freeze in the fall.
I have brought here a cluster of burrs from some chinkapin bushes that have been growing in Elizabeth Park, Hartford, for 23 years.
I have also some clusters of burrs from chinkapin bushes in my own garden.
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.
Every day there had been a book for her in the chinkapin bushes.
He led his horse behind thechinkapin bushes, left it, and came to the top of the bank, looking down at the flat rock.
Clumps of chinkapin bushes intervened, effectually hiding the hollow from the road.
A short distance away was the flat rock with the bank rising above it and the saucer-like depression in which it lay semicircled by a dense screen of chinkapin bushes.
I found a tree-toad in the chinkapin bushes there, and two little red and yellow turtles in the creek.
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