SIX-MONTHS-OLD CHESTNUT 

 TREE IN BEARING 



This is a veritable infant prodigy. 

 Only six months ago its cotyledons 

 broke the soil; and to-day it bears 

 good clusters of maturing fruit, as the 

 picture shows. To cause a tree to take 

 on this habit of an annual plant is a 

 remarkable triumph in selective 

 breeding. 



