1.   If you are determined to cultivate fruits, then the safest bets are berry bushes and nut trees.

2.   And in the Central Valley, this is the time of year when fruit and nut trees are pruned, Cook said.

3.   As for nut trees, Ms. Peck noted that walnuts, chestnuts, pecans and hickories provide both shade and food in many regions of the United States.

4.   He furnished the dwelling, built in a kukui nut tree, with plastic furniture, mosquito netting and an ice chest.

5.   In Kentucky, coal mining and development have all but obliterated the nut trees that sustained squirrels.

6.   Individual trees can be covered with light plastic netting, although that is usually done only for commercial fruit and nut trees.

7.   The squirrels have been raiding the old hickory nut tree in the neat, green front yard, leaving a carpet of dark hulls on the lawn.

8.   We knew exactly where the hickory nut trees were, and we carried home all we could gather.