That it was an Indian she was certain, and that he bore the child she knew, because lying on a rock in the trail she had found a piece of the chain of chinquapins she had amused herself stringing together to place about little Thomas's neck.
From the purely horticultural standpoint these hybrids between chinquapins and chestnut species must be considered as most striking successes.
The smooth bark and shrubby forms of these dwarfchinquapins probably account to a very great extent for the limited damage caused by blight under natural conditions.
The hybrids between the chinquapins and native and European chestnuts were quickly infected, but those with Japan varieties appeared far more resistant.
Weevils attack the chinquapins so extensively in the South that Mr. Littlepage said chinquapinswould not be acceptable to Dr.
When our chestnuts began to die here, I supposed that the chestnut weevils would immediately turn to my chinquapins for comfort.
A few fine walnuts, pecans or hickories, or rows of chinquapins and hazels would add profit as well as beauty to these waste and unsightly places found on most farms.
These chinquapins bear full crops, heavy crops, and one will almost never find a chestnut weevil in the nuts.
At Stamford the bush chinquapins begin to blossom regularly about the twelfth of June, irrespective of weather conditions.
I have a number of hybrids between chinquapins and various species and varieties of other chestnuts, but none of these as yet has produced nuts of marked value.
The bush chinquapins begin to open their burs very regularly about the fifteenth of September; earlier than any other chestnuts.
Morris two questions, first, as to the possibility of utilizing the western tree chinquapins as stocks for the larger eastern chinquapins with nuts of chestnut size.
My tree chinquapinscame from Stark's nursery in Missouri.
Morris about those chinquapins that set without the application of pollen, whether they fill well and whether they sprout at planting?
If you have an orchard of chinquapins and collect all the nuts you will soon dispose of the weevils.
The tree chinquapins blossom a little later, but the alder-leaved chestnut may not blossom until July, later than the common American chestnut.
Curiously enough there are chinquapins also in northeastern Asia which occur as understudies of the larger chestnuts, very much as they do in America.
American chestnut is put, and some of the tree chinquapins acquire an earned increment of two or three feet diameter of trunk, and a height of more than fifty feet.
Around Washington the chinquapin is a weed tree, and if you gather a peck of chinquapins you will find that the whole peck, in two weeks, have turned to weevils.
Thrifty chinquapins are happy in the Arnold Arboretum at Jamaica Plain in Massachusetts, and no one knows but they might be cultivated in Nova Scotia and Minnesota.
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