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 re¬ 
sistance 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. 
There should be two of these trees in 
every town yard, a half dozen in every farm 
yard. It is such fun to pick up the nuts, not 
to mention eating them. 
You will be interested to read a booklet 
on tree crops published by Tennessee Valley 
Authority, Knoxville, Tenn. It tells about 
chestnuts. Be sure to ask for the Tree Crop 
Supplement also. 
These Chinese chestnut trees are being 
planted by thousands on hilly land for hog 
feed. The hogs will harvest the crop as they 
do in France. This is a very common prac¬ 
tice in France where chestnut-fed pork 
brings a premium. See the book TREE 
CROPS, page 6 of this catalog. 
I have grafted Chinese Chestnut trees 
propagated from selected trees, and also 
seedlings grown from nice, large, good 
quality nuts grown for the market in China. 
These nuts are from an inch to an inch and 
a quarter broad. 
Do not forget that if these trees are fed, 
they have a record of bearing sooner than 
apple trees do. They are heavy yielders. 
Grafted Black Walnuts 
Every one knows how good the American 
Black Walnut is but it is not generally 
known that it is the best of all nuts for 
cooking purposes. It carries its flavor right 
through the oven. 
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. 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 
A fruiting branch from the Grecnriver 
Pecan tree shown on page 1. We use scion 
wood from this tree. 
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 fertilized. 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 remark¬ 
able tree yield the kernel in one piece—that 
is to say, the tree often bears two kinds of 
nuts. This is a truly remarkable tree. It is 
also a very beautiful ornamental with a dis¬ 
tinctly tropical appearance. Put one in your 
yard and you will have an interesting feature. 
Its nuts will be different from anything your 
neighbors have. 
Grafted English (Persian) Walnuts 
This tree is a native of Persia whence it 
spread eastward to China and Japan and 
westward to the Mediterranean countries, 
France and England and the Phiited States. 
Because of the climate of its place of origin 
