Show cultivating auts effort is now being made to introduce in the united states a very remarkable nut from japan called the ginaro the tree that bears it is supposed to be the oldest in the world inasmuch as it grew as far back as the coal forming epoch beautiful specimens of it extend in two rows on either side of the main avenue leading to the department of agriculture some of them are bearing fruit this year in florida experiments are being tried for the improvement of the small species of chestnut called the chinquapin it is also being attempted to graft upon the chinquapin big chestnuts in order that the latter may be produced on a dwarf growth washington star |