The Fruit Gardener's Bible: A Complete Guide to Growing Fruits and Nuts in the Home Garden
Enjoy bushels of crispy apples and baskets of juicy blueberries from your own backyard. Authors Lewis Hill and Leonard Perry provide everything you need to know to successfully grow delicious organic fruit at home, from choosing the best varieties for your area to planting, pruning, and harvesting a bountiful crop.
Well, around 1500, in Swiss St Gall, nuts were distributed in memory of specific events. Such "memory nuts", as Carla Roth (in her The Talk of The Town" book) calls them, were reminders of old or to be renewed memories of events, things, power constellations etc.
It's a play on words: the contemporary German "Gedächntnuss" (memory) contains "nuss": nut.