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- noun Plural form of
chinquapin .
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Below 700 m the community is predominantly evergreen broad-leaf with species such as Ternstroemia gymnatheri, Schima spp., chinquapins Castanopsis spp.,
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This was especially true with the smaller chinquapins.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » A letter to the American Chestnut Foundation 2007
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THE PRESIDENT: I should like to ask Dr. Morris two questions, first, as to the possibility of utilizing the western tree chinquapins as stocks for the larger eastern chinquapins with nuts of chestnut size.
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I have perhaps twenty-four chinquapins, both the western form and the eastern, and only one branch of one tree has blighted.
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When I have sprouted chinquapins in the north and there is danger of their not lignifying when the ground begins to freeze, I put a lot of little sticks upright amongst them, so that my mulch will not bear too heavily upon the chinquapins, and then cover them with several inches of oak leaves, or any good, strong leaves that will not pack too tightly.
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Professor Hume, in Florida, sends me chestnut pollen in time to cross my oaks, and Professor Conser, of the University of Maine, has some beeches that blossom in time for me to cross with chinquapins and oak trees.
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Add chinquapins to the number of scarce trees, and the list is complete.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
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Us used to string chinquapins and hang 'em 'round our necks.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Other stocks which have been incorporated in our hybrids are the European _C. sativa_, the southern chinquapins _C. pumilia_, _C. ozarkensis_, _C. floridana_, and Dr. Van
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
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American chestnut is put, and some of the tree chinquapins acquire an earned increment of two or three feet diameter of trunk, and a height of more than fifty feet.
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