GLEN BROTHERS —GLENWOOD NURSERY 
For the Lawn 
W'liencver it can ho given the proper soil, this Chc^tmit is almost an 
ifleal lawn tree. I*'or those who admire the unusual things in ornamental 
idanting. it is i>articularly desirable, as its smooth trunk, roundish, dense 
liead. handsome, dark green leaves, and great burs, render it very attract¬ 
ive for lawn, garden or t^ark, or for roadsides. The leaves retain their 
cfAor until well into the fall, and stay on the branches longer than the 
leaves of most other trees do. The tree is of very rapid growth, often 
making as high as five feet from the graft in a single year, while bearing 
(|uantitics of nuts. Its vitality is simt)ly marvelous. 
PROFITS FROM GROWING SOBER PARAGON CHESTNUTS 
So much for the tree and nut; now how about profits? Is there enough 
money in growing Sober Paragon Chestnuts to make it worth the 
average farmer's wliile? These questions the prospective grower has a 
right t(j know — must know; and it affords us much pleasure to be able to 
answer them so thoroughl}^ and satisfactorily from our personal experi¬ 
ence, as well as from that r)f others who grow and know this splendid 
nut. I‘'mi)hatically, tlie culture of Sober Paragon Chestnuts pays; the 
market demand seems practically unlimited, aiul has been, so far, many 
times greater than the supply. One of the early crops — 2,000 bushels— 
was taken by one commission merchant at a high price, and hundreds of 
others would gladly have bought the crop had they had the opportunity. 
Even across the continent, in Seattle, a commission firm last season 
ordered them in carload lots. 
Even if the j)roduction should be doubled many times over, the 
markets would still take every nut tliat is offered. So far, Sober Paragon 
Chestnuts have regularly sold for two or three times as much as the 
inferior foreign chestnuts. 
Sober Paragon Chestnuts do not drop as tlie wild varieties do, but 
remain in the bur—a decided advantage, as they cannot in this way get 
lost under the tree. W'lien ripe, the burs, which contain three to five 
large nuts, turn brown and open up of their own accord — this generally 
occurs the last of Sei)tember or the first of October; frost is not necessary 
to open the burs. They inaj' then be easil}' removed from the tree and 
spread out to dr}-. The best way to get them off the trees is to use a 
long pole, with a fork on the end. With this implement they may be 
taken easily without bruising or injuring the branches. 
Six dollars per bushel is a fair average price for the nuts, and the 
experience of other growers thoroughly accords with this. .-Xs the trees 
reciuire so very little care or special attention, the cost of gathering and 
marketing the nuts is jiractically tlie entire expense. An acre of Sober 
Paragon Chestnut trees — say fifty trees, ten to finteen years of age—can 
be expected to yield, at the lowest estimate. 1 to 1^2 bushels of nuts per 
tree — or, to be conservative, sixty bushels per acre. At the rate of $6 
per bushel — which is much less than is often paid —an acre would bring 
$3^)0 j)er year, with only a comparatively slight expense for upkeep and 
harvesting. In the Paxinos orchard are many trees, less than eight years 
of age, which are bearing more than a bushel and a half each. 
--\nd it should be remembered that the grove will increase in value 
every year. For example, let us assume that the grove has reached the 
age of thirty years — fifty trees to the acre. This would yield approxi¬ 
mately $1,000 per acre, with a very low expense for harvesting and 
marketing. 
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