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Reid’s Nurseries — Catalogue of Small Fruits, Etc. 
JAPAN EARLY RELIANCE. 
Nuts and Nut Trees. 
Nut culture is an industry that until recently has received but little attention. The large returns of $25 to 
$50 from individual trees, and the immense profits from established orchards, have stimulated the interest, and 
our foremost enterprising fruit-growers are planting nut trees largely for market purposes ; and others who 
enjoy the nuts during winter are realizing that in order to have an abundant supply it is only necessary to plant 
the trees, as hardy varieties are now grown that succeed in all sections of the United States. 
Plant Nut Trees instead of the Nuts. 
Until recently nut trees have been but little grown in nurseries, and in consequence all transplanted trees 
have come from the forests or where they have come up and grown naturally. Having but few or no fibrous 
roots their transplanting has been attended with much uncertainty, and the impression has been formed that they 
could not be transplanted, but that to insure success the seed must be planted where the tree is intended to 
stand. This is erroneous and has deterred many from engaging in this profitable industry. Many of the nut- 
bearing trees, when grown in nurseries, are well supplied with fibrous roots, and can be transplanted as safely as 
an apple tree. Thus the planter has the benefit of the three or four years’ growth in the nursery over the method 
of planting the seed, with the uncertainty of their coming up regularly, to say nothing of the time, care and atten- 
tion required to get them properly started. We therefore advise our customers to always plant the trees, if 
they can be had, and save three or four years’ time. 
CHESTNUTS. 
Early Reliance. Japan (grafted). The second to ripen. Tree of low dwarf spreading habit, and beginning to 
bear immediately — one-year grafts are frequently loaded ; nut large, measuring four inches in circumference, 
and having the valuable characterstic of running three to five nuts to the bur. Tree enormously productive 
—a ten-foot tree yielding three to six quarts ; nuts smooth, bright, uniform, attractive. Ripening September 
18 to 20. Price, 1 year, mail or express, $2.50 each. 
Giant Japan Chestnut Distinct in growth from American varieties ; bears quite young ; nuts of immense 
size, very sweet. First-class, 40 cts. each, *4 per doz. 
Advance. Japan (grafted). The earliest known chestnut. An upright, vigorous grower. Comes to bearing at 
two to three years of age, and very productive, about to two quarts to a ten-foot tree. The nut is large in 
size, running two to three to the bur; dark. in color, smooth and handsome. Ripening September 15th. 
Price, 1 year, mail or express, $2.50 each. 
THE JAPAN MAMMOTH CHESTNUT 
Is among the most valuable recent introductions from Japan. It will adapt itself to almost any conditions, and 
has proved hardy in the extreme cold climate, and flourishes in the south and southwestern states. It is quite 
distinct from the European varieties, being hardier, and the nuts are of a superior flavor and sweetness. The 
leaf is long and narrow, like a peach leaf of dark green color, making a very ornamental lawn tree ; comes to 
bearing at two to three years of age ; while yet in the nursery rows, three to four feet high, they are heavily 
