One day in selecting a flower-pot from a number of empty ones that lay "nested" one within another a hoard of splendid nuts was found occupying the available space in several of them.
One autumn many years ago we frequently found the empty shells of cob-nuts in our greenhouse, and were somewhat puzzled to account for their presence.
Several times when filling our own pockets with hazel-nuts we have met with angry protests from a Squirrel who considered the place his own preserve.
They chatted and laughed and dived for fruit and decked the hair of their favorites with gay flowers, or cracked nuts with their knife handles and fed them to their lady loves.
Upon a huge wooden dish was piled high fresh fruits from the orchard, cakes with delicious frosting, nuts and bright flowers.
The children gathered nuts in the woods, and cranberries in the moss, and mushrooms on the pastures, for tribute to the Place.
He had roofed it over, and all through the pleasant fall he had stored away nuts and acorns in it.
He had seen those sweet acorns and nuts put there, and he had never forgotten them.
All through the pleasant fall, while he had been gathering his supply of nutsand seeds to store away for the winter, he had eaten all he could hold and had filled his red coat out until it actually felt too tight.
In many places they were required to gather nuts in the woods for the lord; the nuts were for making oil, and a quarter of nuts answered to a gallon of oil.
In areas of infestation, these grubs soon begin to bore their way out of the nuts and leave conspicuous holes in the shells.
However, I know of a peach tree heavily loaded right now growing between two Persian walnuts that haven't had a single nut either year, though they have borne nuts previously.
Nuts from that tree might well be tested and compared with nuts from other trees.
Because of the great difference in keeping quality of the nuts of different varieties and from different seedling trees, each chestnut grower should study the keeping performance of the nuts from the different trees in his own orchard.
Anyone who has hunted for nuts in a dense ground cover will appreciate this factor.
The containers of nutsshould be held in cold storage at temperatures of 32° to 36°F.
Tests are under way to determine the most desirable moisture content of nuts at the time of storage.
In either case, it is often desirable to store the nuts for several months before using them.
Many of our members have beautiful groves redeemed from the wild with bounteous crops of nuts overhead and cattle grazing on enriching cover crops underneath.
The lot averaged 58 per pound and the nuts were considered large.
It is too bad thatnuts have not been available on a competitive price basis with other foods, and that luxury prices have limited interest in nuts among the women buyers.
It has much in its favor as it is easy to graft, precocious, prolific, annual in bearing, and the nuts are very sweet.
In seedling plantings seldom do two trees produce nuts of the same size, color, and shape.
While the 1945 nut crop was very light of both pecans and walnuts, I had a few trees with fair crops, though none of the nuts had well filled plump kernels.
I dig the nuts just as soon as they begin to sprout in late winter and line them out in nursery rows where they are to grow during the first year.
Animals wake at sunrise, because one sunrise is like another; and find nuts or grass for food, because each nut and blade of grass is like the rest.
Azores Hazel-nuts Hearne, on habits of bears Heath, changes in vegetation Hector, Dr.
Mokwa had fasted long, and now his appetite demanded more hearty fare than nuts and acorns.
The cornfield no longer held a lure for Ringtail, but the beech trees were dropping their little, three-cornered nuts and the big raccoon was still fat and happy.
A number of vegetables were found, some of them well known, but in a wild state, as well as nutsand fruit.
We found nuts and ate sparingly at first, as our stomachs were too weak to permit us to take much at a time.
And when I helped her fill her basket With sweet nuts that were greatly desired, My ear, quick for every sound of menace, Marked the thing the softer one did not hear.
Put in the nuts and take off the fire at once, and stir till it begins to sugar.
Sometimes Margaret added a cup of chopped nuts to this rule, putting them in just before she took the fudge off the fire.
Cut-up figs are nice to use with the raisins, and chopped nuts are a delicious addition, dropped between the layers of the cake.
You can also make good almond soup by using the regular rule; cooking the chopped nuts in a pint of water, adding the thickened pint of milk and seasoning, and straining twice.
Nut Sandwiches Chop the nutsfine and add just enough cream to moisten; sprinkle with salt and spread.
Dates with Nuts Wash and wipe the dates dry, and take out the stones.
Here in Pennsylvania, and south of Mason and Dixon's line, there grows a delightful small tree, brother to the chestnut, bearing especially sweet little nuts which we know as chinquapins.
But the squirrels would agree; they know well the sweet little triangular nuts that ripen early in fall.
Nut-Bearing Trees What memories of chestnutting parties, of fingers stained with the dye of walnut hulls, and of joyous tramps afield in the very heart of the year, come to many of us when we think of the nuts of familiar knowledge!
Hickory-nuts and butternuts, too, perhaps hazelnuts and even beechnuts--all these American boys and girls of the real country know.
Like a squirrel given more nuts than it can eat at once, who rushes to hide them away, her instinct made her long to take her treasures off where she could look at them alone.
I have stored away as many as a squirrel stores nuts for popanow--what keeps the ship from floating with the tide down to the great water?
Accordingly he began to shake every branch at which he could come, so that the nuts fell and the thieves picked them up and ate some and hid other some till all were full, save the Boy who had eaten naught.
It is that we all came hither together and they bade me climb the tree and shake its boughs that the nuts might fall down to them, and I obeyed their bidding.
If good loam to which has been added a little well-rotted manure is used, the seeds or nutsof hardy trees and shrubs may be allowed to germinate and grow for one season in the flats.
Fall planting exposes the nuts to squirrels and mice.
Or sometimes the large nuts are thrown into a pile with earth and allowed to remain on the surface.
The nuts are buried in nursery rows, and the young trees are transplanted.
He sent his people to gather the nutsof the kukui, or candlenut-tree, and crush out the oil and prepare it for anointing his body.
They eat also nuts and acorns, artichokes, lilly roots, ground beans, and several other weeds and roots, that I know not.
Then he came running to tell me he had a new master, and that he had given him some ground nuts already.
In the morning I went to the same squaw, who had a kettle of ground nuts boiling.
I asked her to let me boil my piece of bear in her kettle, which she did, and gave me some ground nuts to eat with it: and I cannot but think how pleasant it was to me.
When Tommy wakened on the morning of Christmas Day and sleepily demanded that the candle should be lit, Daddy's stocking, with the label pinned on the leg, held nuts and two oranges and two apples, while a trumpet stuck out at the top.
Then the birds flew away to look after their own families, and the squirrels brought nuts and cracked them, and laid them at the feet of the beautiful princess.
