T hirty-nine Years Ago I planted my first nut trees in Loudoun County, Virginia, 
in the Blue Ridge Country, in a climate colder than that of Philadelphia. Those first 
trees soon died, but I now know the reason why. You can profit by my experience. 
I am having great fun with nut trees, and gathering many varieties of nuts each 
autumn. 
Have just had an interesting year in the nursery and experiment grounds. 
On the Blue Ridge Mountain, not far from the historic town of Harpers Ferry, 
at elevations of 800 to 1300 feet, I ripened in this one season : 
1. Six varieties of Northern Pecans 
2. Seven varieties of Hybrid Hickories 
3. Two varieties of Grafted Shagbarks 
4. Five varieties of Grafted Black Walnuts 
5. About thirty varieties of blight resistant chestnuts 
The most surprising thing was the number of grafted pecans and hickories that 
ripened nuts in the nursery row—many 8—10 ft. Busseron Pecans and some Buttericks 
and several other varieties. 
1 have been experimenting with northern Pecans for more than twenty years. They 
are as hardy as hickories and bear delicious nuts. They are also beautiful trees and will 
make your place a landmark. They are good wherever dent corn grows. 
My first chestnut orchard died with the blight but I have hundreds of blight re¬ 
sistant Chinese chestnut trees coming and they are early bearers. 
The grafted American Black Walnuts are so promising that I have a field of them. 
The hybrid Hickories are the real astonishment. Some of them bear earlier than 
apples. Some of them grow as fast as maples, two to three feet in a year, and are more 
beautiful trees than maples. One of these hybrids, the McCallister, bears larger nuts than 
any Southern Pecan. 
As a result of my forty years of experiments I have a few proved varieties for sale. 
Blight Resistant Chinese Chestnuts 
Grafted Trees and Seedlings 
These trees are grown from large, sweet 
chestnuts of flavor resembling the native 
American chestnut. They have been exposed 
to blight in China for an unknown period. 
Therefore they have developed high resis¬ 
tance to the blight. They will grow 2 or 3 
feet or even more per year if well fertilized. 
You should have at least two trees for cross 
fertilization. 
Trees will grow to the size of an apple 
tree. 
Chinese Chestnut described more fully in 
booklet, which will be sent on request. 
Hybrid Chestnuts 
The most astonishing nut tree known to 
me is the chinchinq, a hybrid between the 
Chinese chestnut and the American chin¬ 
quapin. They bear in the nursery row at 
two and three feet in height. They bear the 
year after you set them out. The nuts are 
nearly or quite an inch in diameter, a beauti¬ 
ful rich mahogany color and of good qual¬ 
ity, especially when roasted or boiled. 
You should have these and a grafted 
Chinese to pollinate each other. 
The Chinese will bear as soon as the 
apple bears or sooner, but the chinchinq is 
in a class alone for precocity. 
These trees have glossy leaves of a dis¬ 
tinctly ornamental character. 
Don’t forget that these are grafted trees, 
known, true and precocious. 
Grafted Black Walnuts 
The propagated varieties have been se¬ 
lected from among many thousands because 
they come out of the shell easily. This is 
the result of wide search for unusual trees 
of the native species. 
We have a limited supply of grafted black 
walnut trees of the Thomas and Stabler 
varieties and a very few Ohio. These are 
native American black walnuts. The Thomas 
has the following characteristics: 
(1) It grows about twice as fast as an 
apple tree. 
(2) It bears as soon as most apple trees. 
I have had large-size Thomas walnut trees 
to bear a few nuts the year after setting 
out. This, however, is unusual. 
(3) Most of the kernels come out of 
the shells in whole quarters, about ten 
pounds of kernels to the bushel. 
(4) The kernels are of unusually fine 
flavor. 
(5) The tree has proved hardy and fruit¬ 
ful in southern Ontario, at Ithaca, New 
York, southern Vermont, in Iowa and in 
west central Texas. A grower at Clyde, 
Texas, reports eight consecutive crops. 
May be expected to bear as often as wild 
walnut trees bear, and oftener if well fer¬ 
tilized. The black walnut loves food. 
The Stabler is not so rapid a grower, but 
most of the kernels come out in complete 
halves, and some of the nuts of this re¬ 
markable tree yield the kernel in one piece. 
The tree is also a very beautiful ornamental 
with a distinct tropical appearance. Put one 
in your yard and you will have an inter¬ 
esting feature. Its nuts will be different 
from anything your neighbors have. 
The Ohio is a very vigorous tree, and a 
sort of compromise between the Thomas 
and Stabler. 
