Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-17

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 purchased from green grocers, taken home, and either boiled or roasted, and immediately used. They are also regarded as wholesome and nutritious when eaten raw, with plenty of salt and little pepper. People usually regard nuts of all varieties as luNu- ries, but the department of agri- culture says they should be regarded as food, and should be studied as such. It is said that peanuts as well as chestnuts, properly prepared, are good for dyspepsia and other stom- ach ailments. This seems rather singular at first, because the prevail ing popular impression has long been that these nuts arc indigestibe.
 One of the learned professors says: 'Dyspepsia is unknown in Italy where olive oil is so freely used as to be al most nauseating to people of this country who visit there. But physi- cians who understand their business prescribe olive oil in this country in cases of acute dyspepsia, and always with favorable results. I believe that cottonseed oil, and peanut oil, and chestnut oil are as beneficial for the people of this country as olive oil is for the people of Italy; and I am in clined to think that those oils are bet ter for our people, because nature has provided them in such luXuriant, abun- dance. And I think that the best way to assimilate those oils is to take them directly from the nuts, by making them part of the table food.'
 Cultivators say that there is great variation in the fruitfulness of individ- ual trees even when their environments are similar, and almost identical. Most species of both sees are bisexual that is, the flowers of both sexes are OH a single tree. But exceptions have been noticed by many observers of supposed uniseXual Individuals that is, having the flowers of the two sexes on different trees. In such cases trees of both sexes must be planted in close proximity in order to secure good crops of fruit.
 This is a singular fact, known to very few readers and ordinary observers, that trees and other plants have sexes. Learned men know such facts, but com mon everyday newspaper men and readers of newspapers know not this
 
 are male trees and female trees, or there are fruit flowers of both sexes growing on the same tree.
 The male flowers of the chestnut are produced in the axils of successive or alternate leaves in early June, in cylin- drical catkins as long as the leaves, and sometimes longer. They appear after the leaves are nearly grown. later than .1- Ii 2 |, Fz male flowers are borne in four pointed burrs on stiff bikes which grow from the aNils of the leaves on the extended shoot. They are thus developed later and on younger wood than the male blossoms. Very rarely the trees of the American chestnut have the habit of maturing fruit from all, or nearly all, of the female flowers along the entire spike.
 There are European and Japanese chestnuts ill our markets, and they used 10 have preference over the Amer jean product but during the last ten years the foreign chestnuts have been almost driven from our markets by the cultivation and extensive marketing of our own growths. The imported trees and seedlings have been killed by our severe winters, and the trees which na- ture intended for American growth re- tain their natural precedence.
 But these men of science would give us so much information of a technical character that we would become con- fused in tire presence of the harmless and nutritious, as we'll as palatable, nut food, and we will simply take their word for Il he attested fact that they are good for our healths good for our stomachs, good for our\systems, and take them home for preparation and consumption. And the more the bet ter. M SMITH D. FRY