Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
MIGRATIoNs OF NUTS.
How Some Have Been Transplanted
in Various Parts of the World,
st. Louis Globe-Democrat

HioiH tHe 81 LOUIS bioDe-DeInOcrat.
Yes, thank you" said the professor of
botany, as the mistress of the house at
which he was visiting passed him the SUITS
Il am very fond Of nuts" he added, as he
pushed the finger bowl away and began
depredations with pair of nut crackers en-
some peculiarly stubborn variety, which at
first baff1ed his most vigorous attempts.
Il suppose you know every nut by name
and all about their ancestry and birth
placer" said the younger daughter of the
household, who had just returned for the
summer vacation from Vassar
II would like to know a great deal more
about them" was the non-committal reply.
II have always had the greatest interest In
nuts ever since the time that as a boy
went out on nutting parties. The children
or this age do not go nutting, as their
fathers and grandfathers did. Nuts have
become a most important article of COM
merce at the present time and 1 read only
yesterday that 5O,0O0,OO0 Brazil nuts, the
kind have in my fingers, are exported
from the South American port of Para
alone. These nuts are obtained from a
remarkable tree, which attains the height
of 100 feet before the branches spread out
The trees are buttressed in the lower part
of the trunk, affording a sort of tentlike
room for small family. The nuts grow in
large capsules, which, when they fall to
the ground, are split open by the natives,
and thus the nuts are gathered.
"One can buy at almost any grocery now
more than dozen kinds of nuts, each of
which represents for the most part differ
ent part Of the EARTH Here in this dish for
instance, are walnuts, pecans, haZelnu.s
butternuts, flberts cobnuts, chestnuts and
our own American peanut. The walnut is
a strange sort of vagrant, and so it has
earned its name, which in the German
means foreign nut! 1t has changed Its habi-
tat until it has gone all around the world
1t Is close relative Of the butternut and
was first found almost as far north as the
arctic circle. At later date it appeared in
France, and then shifted to Japan After
several centuries 1t was again introduced
into Europe from the country south of the
Caucasus. Hence it's name, as foreigner
l don't know of city where / have been
that there is not Filbert street." said the
professor, after he had discovered a filbert
nut at the bottom Of the dish. 1.-The reason
Is that the filbert has long been a popular
nut. 1t is named after a German saint
whose day is August %. The chief differ
ence between filberts and cobnuts is that
the hrst are longer, with the involucre COM
pIeteiy covering the NUT while the cobnuts
are rounder, with less husk
england Is the home of the hazelnut
ana EnsilSn hazelnuts, by the way, are far
superior 10 our American varieties. In the
old country the cultivation of hazelnuts
mas been carried on with such success that
the nut mas become dainty, and is ranked
as SUCH"
But you said something about even our
american peanut said the Vassar stu
dent land you said 1t as IL the neanu.
belonged to lower class. You didn't mean
TO make fun Of the poor peanut did you?''
well. not make fun OF 1t, exactly.,' re-.
Piled the professor. 'but we all know.