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The above Medals, also a Special Diploma, were aivarded PARRYS' 

 POMONA NURSERIES for Ihe foregoing exhibit. 



GRAFTED CHESTNUT TREES. 



Without attempting to explain the reason why it is so, the fact is well 

 known to every propagator of the improved varieties of the Chestnut that the 

 grafted trees are very precocious, and will, as a rule, produce nuts when not 

 more than two or three years old, while seedlings of the same rarely produce 

 fruit under ten or twelve years. There is far more danger from over-fruitfulness 

 than unproductiveness in grafted Chestnuts, for there are few persons who will 

 have the courage to remove or thin out the crop of nuts on young trees, which 

 is often necessary to prevent stunting the growth of the plants. It would be 

 much better not to allow very young trees to bear at all, than to stunt their 

 growth by over-bearing, but impatience to reap an early crop often ends in a 

 half crop, or none. 



I have on my farm two Chestnut trees, each about two feet in diameter, 

 which were top grafted with Paragon scions, that produced the fourth year from 

 grafts one hundred and twenty pounds of hulled nuts, one tree bearing fifty- 

 nine pounds and the other sixty-one pounds, which sold at wholesale in Phila- 

 delphia at $10.00 per bushel. 



Of the Scott Chestnut, Judge Scott, of Burlington, New Jersey, had one 

 tree in a large field of wheat and realized from the crop of nuts, from the one 

 tree, more than from the whole field of wheat. 



The Albion Chestnut Company, Jno. J. Albertson, Secretary, Magnolia, 

 Camden County, New Jersey, have a tract of one hundred and fifty acres of 

 Chestnut sprout land, top grafted with the improved Japan and European 



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