Show sacred kut nuts of jain julian although well known to travelers and collectors of curiosities tho the horn born nut or sacred nut of japan was almost wholly unknown to fruit and nut dealers in this country prior to 1888 when a broadway Dro adway new york commission merchant received the first large consignment they are called sacred nuts because used in certain forms of japanese worship where they are placed on the altar and ignited being very rich in oil they burn with a hot bluish flume flame find rive give off a peculiar liar odor the fumes being supposed to rise as an acceptable incense to the gods they grow under water and have a leaf like an american lily the form of the nut itself being an almost exact chui coui counterpart of an asian buffalos buffaloe buff alos head drooping horns and all in the raw state they are hard and tasteless but when cooked the flavor resembles that of boiled chestnuts they are aid to retain their edible qualities for upward of twenty years ye araSt st louis he ite public |