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Japanese Slveet Chestnuts, continued 
T_T A T -p This has been known as ihe “ 18 -months Chestnut,” on account of its wonderful 
1 fruitins' qualities, ilie orij'inul tree liaving produced nuts 18 months after the seed was 
= planted! The tree is the most beautiful of all the Japan Chestnuts iliat 1 have seen. 
It has a willowy, drooping habit that will command a place on tlie most lawn, and its early 
and persistent fruiting will make it profitable in field and orchard. The burs are small, with very 
thin shucks and but very short spines. They are produced in clusters of five or si-v, each bur 
containing at least one large, fat nut, often two, and occasionally three. Nuts rich, dark, glossy 
seal-brow*!!, sweet and goocl. Beauty of tree and fruit, combined with early fruitage and wonder¬ 
ful produ'-iiveness, are its strong points. Plant it for shade as well as fruit. Price, i-yr. trees only, 
2 to 3 ft. size, St -50. 
Chestnut Cions for Qrafting 
Chestnut is the principal wood-growth over a wide range of northeastern United States, and 
wherever the trees are cut, sprouts cjuickiy come up about the slumps. These sprout-lands have an 
assessed valuation of from $3 to$io per acre according to location, and it takes 25 to 30 years to grow 
a new culling of timber, worth not much more than the interest and taxes of the growing years. 
By taking the best of the yearling sprouts, distributed at proper distances and grafting them with 
improved Japanese varieties, keeping all other sprouts and wood-growths cut away, a fine nut 
orchard can be developed in a few years that will pay annual profits far in advance of the total 
wood and limber value at the end of 30 years. My present opinion is that we shall succeed best 
willi stocks less than half an inch in diameter, whip-grafting close to the ground, about the lime 
buds on the slock are bursting into leaf, with dormant cions as near the same size ns the slocks as 
po.ssible. Varieties of Japanese origrin unite more readily with our native stocks than do those 0! 
European type, like Paragon, Numbo, etc., and as the Japanese are also less subject to attacks from 
weevil, I conclude, after testing all, to depend entirely upon the Japanese type fi r success and 
profit. Hardiness of wood, natural affinitv for our native stock, and sweet, rich quality of nuts, 
place the best of the Japanese in the lead for profitable nut culture. Grafting wood of Hale. Coe 
and MacFarland, 25c. per fool; 3 ft,, any one variety, 50c.: 10 ft., Si; 100 ft. or more, 6c. per ft. 
Standard Truit Trees 
While hundreds of varieties are grown in the nursery, I name only a few of the very best to 
cover a long season ; just the choice old reliables for home or market. 
riNI. l-YLAR APPLE TREES, VERY CHEAP 
Having a block of 40,000 extra fine, splendidly rooted one-year trees on land that I want to 
clear this spring, I can offer all varieties as named above, except Gravenslein, one-year 
trees in assorted varieties, at St-50 per doz., $8 per 100. These trees have a great quantity of 
fine fibrous roots and if planted at once in good mellow soil will make grand orchard trees; 
or where one has not land all ready for the orchard, they can be planted in rows five feet 
apart, trees two feet in the row. in rich garden 
longer, and by yearly transplanting become 
finest of all for orchard purposes and ready at 
Apples 
All-the-year-rouncl supply in order named. 
Yellow Transparent, Red Astrachan, Early 
Harvest. Sweet Bough, Golden Sweet, Graven¬ 
slein. Fall Pippin, Porter, McIntosh Red, Hub- 
bardslon, Fameuse, Wealthy, Rhode Island 
Greening, Baldwin, Sutton, Jonathan, Taiman 
Sweet, York Imperial, Roxbury Russet. First- 
class, 2- to 3-year trees, 5 to 7 feet up, 35 cis. 
each, $3 per doz., $20 per ico. 
Crab Apples 
Hyslop (large red), Transcendent (red and 
yellow). 50 els. eacli. 
Quinces 
Orange, Meech's Prolific and Champion. 35 
cts. each, S3 per doz.. $15 to S25 per ico, accord¬ 
ing to size and variety. 
soil, and grown for two or three years, or even 
very heavy trees with concentrated roots, the 
hand any day when wanted. 
Tears 
July till Februarj-, in order named. 
Summer Doyenne, Clapp’s Favorite, Bartlett, 
Sheldon, Seckel, Worden-Seckel, Anjou, Ver¬ 
mont Beauty, Winter Nelis. First-class trees, 
50 cts. each. 
Cherries 
Montmorency (red), largest and best cooking 
and canning variety. Governor Wood (red and 
while), Coe’s Transparent (yellowish red). 
Yellow Spanish (yellow and red), Centennial 
(yellowish red), Black Tartarian (black), Rock- 
port (reddisb amber), Schmidt’s Bigarreau 
(black, very large), Windsor (late black), best 
sweet dessert varieties. 50 cts. each. 
Those of my friends who have not planted the 
WILDER CURRANT should plant it sure. It is otie 
of the very large varieties that give great satisfac¬ 
tion on any kind of soil. 
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