Nutlet

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Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting

“ A Fruitful Pair of Carpathian Walnut Varieties in Michigan
GILBERT BECKER, Climax, Mich.
I would like to tell you briefly my experience with the difficulties of Persian walnut pollination. It took 8 years before I got any nuts, although they had nutlets time and again! It was after I had Crath #1 bearing, that all proceeded to fruit, and then heavier every year, until 1951 when the freeze of November 1950 eliminated the nuts.
Crath #1 has done so well that I feel it well worthy of being a commercial prospect for us. The size and shape are so attractive.
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W. S. Harris,  Life in a Thousand Worlds

“ The happiest result of this worm-killing substance is seen in the work it accomplishes on fruit and nut trees. There is triple the variety of nuts on Ploid, and they are used for food more generally than in our world. There is no such an animal as a hog and no lard is used. The substitute is found in four varieties of nut oil, the result of a sweet and clean vegetable growth. Nuts are raised in great abundance, for they also supply the base for a spread just as appetizing and more economical than butter. ”
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Portrait of Thomas Davidson Thomas Davidson,  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary 1908… (1908)

“ Nut, nut, n. the name popularly given to all those fruits which have the seed enclosed in a bony, woody, or leathery pericarp, not opening when ripe: (bot.) a one-celled fruit, with a hardened pericarp, containing, when mature, only one seed: often the hazel-nut, sometimes the walnut: a small block of metal for screwing on the end of a bolt.—v.i. to gather nuts:—pr.p. nut′ting; pa.p. nut′ted.—adj. Nut′-brown, brown, like a ripe old nut.—ns. Nut′cracker, an instrument for cracking nuts: a genus of birds of the family Corvidæ ”
Source: Wikisource

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