CHESTNUT TREES THAT HAVE RIPENED NUTS 
The sensation of the year in our little nursery is the surprising way 
that the chestnut trees came into bearing in the nursery row. A number of 
trees, 5-6 feet, 6-7 feet, 7-8 feet, 8-9 feet, have ripened nuts. These 
trees have been carefully marked. If you want some of these proved trees 
of Zimrnerman and Carr variety and some Connecticut Yankee, add $1.00 
to the list price. If you take it with ball of earth you will have nuts in a 
hurry. Remember you need two kinds for pollenation. _ 
Chinese Chestnut Seedlings—Sturdy, two-year trees, well-rooted, parcel 
post prepaid: 3 trees $1.00; 12 trees $3.00; 100 trees $22.00. (25 sold at 
hundred rate.) _ 
± If interested in very beautiful shade try a big pecan. Write for rare tree list. 
* NOTE: The Connecticut Yankee variety is for some reason very hard to 
graft, and therefore much more expensive to grow, and prices for it are 
40^ per tree higher for all sizes. 
** Specimen Black Walnuts to ornament your yard at once and bear nuts 
soon. Get our rare tree list. Tasterite is a native of Ithaca, N. Y. It 
belongs in the North. 
♦** Kansas Persimmon seems to be in same class as Connecticut Yankee 
chestnut. We got very few of them. They are of 2 - 3 and 3-4 foot sizes 
and we have to ask 40^ per tree extra for them. These trees are very 
precocious. They regularly bear in nursery row if they are allowed to 
get 4 feet tall. 
tt Special price on quantity. _ 
BALL. OP EARTH 
I strongly recommend that you let us ship large sized trees, by railway 
freight with ball of earth (balled and burlapped). You will be surprised to 
see how reasonable the freight rates are. Your local railway can give you 
exact freight rate t 9 your station. Present rates per 100 pounds, from Pur- 
cellville, Va., to: 
Philadelphia, Pa., 60^; Boston, Mass., 91^^; Buffalo, N. Y., 90^; Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa., 76^; Chicago, Ill., $1.12. You should count on the trees weighing 
from 200 to 500 lbs. according to size. 
Planting with ball of earth is the quick way to get a nut tree started. 
It can start to growing the first year and you save two years’ time. I 
did it with my 40 acres of Pecans—trucking the trees fifteen miles. Two 
years ago I put 40 balled and burlapped hickories out in a bluegrass sheep 
pasture. They all lived but one. Let us send yours that way. 
We have sent two large shipments balled and burlapped to Texas with 
complete success. 
Trees will be prepared with ball of earth carefully burlapped and put 
on train for $1.00 per tree extra for trees under 6 ft.; $1.50 for trees 6-8 
ft.; $2.50, 8-10 ft.; $3.50, 10-12 ft._ 
FALL PLANTING recommended on Long Island and south of line—New 
York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburg. November is an excellent time. In the 
spring plant as early as you can. 
Ad,dress and. make checks payable to: 
SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY, SWARTHMORE, PA. 
Do not telephone Swarthmore about trees. Do not call there about trees. 
It is a strictly mail order office. The trees are far away on the Blue Ridge 
mountains of Virginia. Your letters will receive prompt attention, so will 
your orders. 
A HYBRID FREE TO EXPERIMENTERS 
Years ago the late Dr. Walter Van Fleet, of United States Department 
of Agriculture, hybridized the American Chinkapin and the Japanese Chest¬ 
nut. The result is called S.8, and is one of the most productive Chestnut 
trees known. It bears young annually and ripens about September first at 
Philadelphia. The beautiful nut is not of high quality but good for roasting. 
When the parent tree was about 30 feet high these came a great drought 
and one limb developed the all too well known chestnut blight. Thereupon 
the Department forbade me to sell the trees. I am however permitted to give 
them away provided you promise to sign agreement not to propagate to 
sell. I have a few trees more than I wish to plant and will give one free of 
cost while they last to any one who buys a $10.00 order of other trees and 
asks for the S.8 tree. 
