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CHESTNUT bush!” exclaimed a visitor; 
A “that is the greatest marvel I have seen yet. 
I was brought up under chestnut trees; but 
when I see chestnuts growing on huckleberry 
bushes I am certainly having a new experience.” 
And I suppose this experience would be new 
to almost anyone who has not visited my experi- 
ment farm at Sebastopol. For, so far as I know, 
until very recently, there have been no chestnuts 
growing on bushes anywhere else in the world. 
But there are plenty of them in my orchard at 
Sebastopol; that is to say, if a sprig of a shrub 
only three feet or so in height and three feet across 
is entitled to be called a bush, 
Moreover the nuts that are borne on these 
miniature trees are of the finest variety—large, 
plump nuts, at least as large as half a dozen of the 
nuts you are likely to find growing on chestnut 
[VotumE XI—Cuapter I] 
