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Pennell. From Joseph Pennell, of Delaware County, Pennsylvania ; a large, 

 handsome tree ; very productive ; nut medium size ; good quality and very 

 early. 



Mather. From Montgomery County, Pennsylvania ; a very large tree ; 

 very productive ; nuts good size, smooth, dark and handsome, with very little 

 fuzz, but its great merit is in its extreme earliness, maturing its crop early in 

 September and long in advance of any other Americans. 



EUROPEAN CHESTNUTS. 



The European Chestnut has been grown in 

 this country a half century or more, with in- 

 different success, very few of the original im- 

 portations surviving the extreme cold weather 

 of our Middle and Northern States. From these 

 few, or from their seedlings, have been selected 

 some very valuable varieties. They have ioujjd 

 a congenial home in Eastern Pennsylvania and 

 Delaware, and are largely grown for market. 

 They make a handsome low-headed tree. The 

 SPANISH. nuts are i ar g er than the American ; bright, 



brown color ; coarser flesh, not so sweet nor so good quality as the American, 

 with less fuzz and more or less astringency or bitterness of skin. I will name 

 some of the most desirable of the European strain, of American origin, or 

 American seedlings of European varieties. 



Comfort. Origin: Pennsylvania, near Ger- 

 mantown, and from its close resemblance in 

 tree, foliage, habit of growth, burrs, nuts and 

 other characteristics to the Paragon, with its 

 history and circumstances in connection with 

 it, we are led to believe the Comfort was the 

 mother of the famous Paragon. Burrs very 

 large, broad, flattened; nuts broad; shell cov- 

 ered with thin hairy fuzz; quality good. Tree 

 very productive; generally three to the burr. 



Cooper. Tree a vigorous- grower and very productive; burr large; nut 

 large, smooth and glossy, with little fuzz; quality very good; grown largely in 

 vicinity of New Jersey and in Camden county, N. J. 



Corson. From Walter H. Corson, Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery 



