any black walnut will grow. It will pay you to plant this unproductive land to these 
nuts. The timber will be valuable in years to come as well as the big crop^ of black 
walnuts that you will harvest. 
CHESTNUT GROWING ON THE PACIFIC COAST 
Present indications show encouraging possibilities for Grafted Chestnut groves on 
the Pacific slope, particularly in the Northwest. Chestnut growing in the East is no 
longer a profitable industry. Disease and weevil have caused heavy losses to their groves. 
The West has never suffered from these adversities. 
Beaiing groves in Oregon and California show very heavy yields at exceedingly early 
age. Trees of the grafted type are paying good at seven years and will under favorable 
conditions produce more than 125 pounds to the tree at 10 years. Yields of 2000 to 4000 
pounds per acre may be expected fiom trees 12 to 15 years of age. The fact that we 
are capable of producing fine chestnuts that are sold in car lots at 15 to 20 cents per lb. 
and that we are importing many millions of pounds of chestnuts from foreign countries, 
should interest the progressive horticulturist. The future for chestnuts will no doubt 
be good. The cost of producing and harvesting this ciop is nominal. They require no 
special spraying, pruning or thinning. The nut falls free from the burr. 
Chestnuts will adapt themselves to ordinary orchard soils with proper drainage. 
For large, rich, brown, glossy nuts far superior to those of our foreign competitor, we are 
receiving a premium of 5 to 8 cents per lb. Chestnuts produced in the Northwest show 
beautiful color, well filled burrs, large size and heavy tonnage. 
The following sorts of grafted chestnut trees are proven sorts for this Coast and 
a variety should be planted to insure good cioss pollenization. This stock will be income 
producers at seven years. 
Some of the following varieties were originated in Illinois and are hardy for the 
Coast section well up into Canada. The chestnut industiy has dropped out entirely on 
the Atlantic Coast owing to blight. This coast has never been affected with the so 
called Oriental Chestnut Bark disease. The following article is taken from the U. S. 
Dept, of Agriculture year book on page 482 of the 1927 edition showing a great field for 
chestnuts. 
“There are three known orchards and grove plantings of chestnut tree's in Southern 
Illinois which for many years have annually given highly satisfactory yields. Nuts from 
these trees (fig. 166) have readily brought from 18c to 30c per pound in Chicago, depend¬ 
ing upon the grade and market conditions, less commission and shipping charges amount¬ 
ing roughly to 5 cents per pound. These nuts normally mature in time to reach the 
market well in advance of the imported product from Southern Europe, which retails 
at about half or two-thirds these pi ices. Nevertheless, even in competition with for¬ 
eign nuts, the late home grown varieties have an established reputation which enables 
them to command a margin in price of several cents a pound during the early part of 
the import season.” 
Chestnuts will respond to the same cultivation, fertility, drainage and cover crop¬ 
ping as a walnut grove. Chestnuts do not blossom until summer time and are sure 
croppers. 
The field for expansion in the chestnut industry is great. Markets are good, and 
a grove of chestnuts will prove to be a valuable asset to any farm in the Pacific North¬ 
west. Note our late price list for prices on grafted chestnuts. 
We handle a full line of reliable nursery stock. 
PLANT GRAFTED CHESTNUT TREES FOR EARLY PROFITS 
The following sorts of Grafted Chestnuts are mainly hybrids of known quality 
introduced by the Government and reliable nurserymen both in the middle west and 
Pacific slope. They bear exceptionally young and yield amazing crops at six to seven 
years old. Ordinary orchard soil will produce a wonderful chestnut and even some of 
the heavier soils grow wonderful trees. Chestnut trees should be set from 40 to 50 
feet apart, using from 27 to 17 to the acre, and can be interset with fillers of peaches, 
cherries and other commercial fruits or berries and made to bring you an early income. 
These new grafted sorts are crossed with the European and American sorts. 
COLOSSAL,: A very large chestnut, deep brown, glossy color, strong grower, ex¬ 
cellent flavor and often growing to a size larger than a fifty cent piece. Falls free from 
the burr. 
FULLER: Medium size, exceedingly fine flavor, exceptional bearer, and a fine 
keeper. One of the best sellers to the chestnut-buying foreign population. Falls free 
from burr. 
LARGE AMERICAN SWEET: An extremely large nut, highly colored, ripens early 
Our Nut Trees Have Vigorous Branched Roots 
