NEWS BULLETIN AND PRICELIST 
SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY, FALL, 1941 
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PRICES 
We have not raised our prices. Hope we will not have 16. 
We have raised wages. Everybody who sells us supplies: has raised. prices on 
us. Our best truck has been in the repair shop for:'60 days because priorities pre § 
withholding the necessary parts. This caused expensive hiring. 
We are hoping we will get enough more ee to make up. for: these 
troubles. Here are two of the reasons why: 
“Red Bank, N. J., Oct. 8, 1941 — On April 17, 1939, we bought two chestnut 
trees from you which are bearing fruit this year, and we like ED very much. 
We would like to obtain more.” 
‘Another customers writes, 9/27/41, Hancock, Md. — “One of my Nie: joys 
was to pick up five chestnuts under your Chinese chestnut tree; a squirrel beat 
me to three nuts.” : 
THE THRILL OF GATHERING NUTS 
I understand very fully the thrill of these two middle aged professional men 
at picking up chestnuts. Ripening chestnuts are beautiful things. It thrills me 
to walk through the nursery in September and October and see the glossy brown 
nuts peeping out of the opening burrs with here and there a shiny gleam com- 
ing up from the ground. 
My satisfaction at this has no relation to such sdesthie matters as caline: 
Nut trees are fun, as well as beauty, interest and food supply. 
I gave two seedling trees to one of my suburban neighbors some years ago. 
Now you would almost think he was a bantam rooster to hear him crowing 
about the chestnuts that he gets. He has a lot of fun giving nuts to his friends. . 
And incidentally he sends his friends to me to buy trees so that they may join 
the group of the sentimentally elect. 
PLEASE ORDER EARLY 
Business was brisk last spring and some lines were sold out entirely. In 
some varieties we have but few trees to sell. They will be given to those persons 
who order them first. : 
We may reprint the price list at any time, omitting the lines that are sold 
out. Therefore the advantage of early ordering should be apparent. 
We especially urge those persons who wish to buy trees with a ball of earth 
to get their orders in in the fall and as early in the fall as they can. 
We never can tell what is ahead of us in the matter of weather, to say 
nothing of the war. Last spring, for example, winter sat on us with heavy snow 
until the middle of March. The weather man turned on August with tempera- 
ture of 80°. April 12. Thus we had a one month satisfactory shipping season 
rather than two. — 
Next spring the war industries may have taken our labor away so that we 
simply could not handle orders for picy. or a hundred trees with ball of earth 
as we did last spring. 
Trees with ball of earth can be planted in the autumn a hundred miles 
further north than is safe for bare root trees. 
NOTE—So far as we know everything that we sell except mulberry has better 
chance of yielding if it has a partner of same species and different variety to 
_pollenate the blossoms—except that black walnut will pollenate English walnut. 

