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Sweet chestnut

noun

Wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia. Synonyms: Castanea sativa, European chestnut, Spanish chestnut.

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... large number of hybrids, two of very high quality between the American sweet chestnut and the chinkapin. I gave these to Mr. Jones. He found, however, that he had no market for them because of the fear of blight. I would like to present scions of this to anybody outside the chestnut area where chestnuts are being grown, provided I can do this under government methods. We should ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting • Various

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... properties which are fit to help the growth of the peculiar nature and form of the fruit, flower, leaves of each tree. Suppose the chestnut is a horse-chestnut. If, under different conditions, the peculiar nature of the horse-chestnut changes into that of a sweet chestnut, then, along with the changes in the seed, the whole nature of the tree, leaves, fruits will also be changed. It will no more attract, absorb or assimilate those substances and qualities of the environments which it did when it was a horse-chestnut. Similarly, ...

— Reincarnation • Swami Abhedananda

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