Nuts                                                                     5
[01]     Sep 23d 52 Some acorns & hickory nuts (mockernut)

[02]     on the ground but they have not begun to shell

[03]     The walnuts (pignuts?) rubbed together smell like

[04]     varnish.

[05]     Oct 23 The chestnuts have mostly fallen

[06]     Oct 27-53 Now is the time to look for walnuts, last & hardest nut

[07]     of the year.

[08]     31st Now appear to be the very time for walnuts— I knock down

[09]     showers with a stick—but still all do not come out

[10]     of the shells.

[11]     Nov. 1st 53 Gathered 5 or 6 quarts of Pignuts—partly by clubbing

[12]     the trees—thinking they might furnish entertainment some

[13]     evening the coming winter— Not more than half are

[14]     out of the shells—but it is pleasant shelling them to

[15]     have one’s fingers scented with their fine aroma—(the

[16]     red squirrel reproving the while)        (V perhaps for nuts gnawed
        NB                                                                                         & Buster Kendal
[17]     Nov 2d I gather some fine large pignuts by the wall near

[18]     the beeches on Asher’s land. It is just the time to get

[19]     these—and this seems to be quite early enough for most

[20]     pignuts— (Wall nutting last of Oct. & first of November—)

[21]     I find that there have been plenty of beech nuts

[22]     & there are still some empty burrs on the trees, &

[23]     many nuts on the ground, but I cannot find one

[24]     with meat in it.

[25]     Nov. 6-53 Gathered some of those fine large mockernuts

[26]     which are now in their prime.—Carya tomentora.

[27]     I am struck by the vanity in the form & size of the

[28]     walnuts (in shells) Some with a slight neck &

[29]     slightly club shaped perhaps the most common—

[30]     Some much longer nearly 2ce as long as wide.

[31]     Some—(like the mockernut) slightly deformed or rather

[32]     fattened above.— Some pig nuts very large & regularly

[33]     obovate 1 1/4 inches in diameter

[34]     Nov 7-53 I shook 2 mockernut trees—one just read to drop

[35]     its fruit—& most came out of the shells; but the

[36]     other tree was not ready—only a part fell &

[37]     those mostly in the shells. This is the time