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| SPRING, 1941 ; Bde el 
NEWS BULLETIN AND PRICE BIST 
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SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY 
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Small Supply of Trees 
For some reason last season turned out to be a bad on r Bagh a 
ting nut trees at our nursery. In some varieties our stock is low: 
If you order pecans, hiccans, hybrid hickory or English waln é 
hope you will give an alternative or give us permission to substitute 7 lh 
nearest thing. . 
So far as we know everything that we sell except mulberry has bet- 
ter chance of yielding if it has a partner of same species and different 
variety to pollenate the blossoms. my 
CHINESE CHESTNUTS NOT SO SLOW 
l Perhaps you have the good luck not to be 50 years old. Perhaps you do 
not remember how much fun it was to pick up the shiny brown chest- 
nuts from the autumn grass and fill your pockets in the days before the blight 
had laid low these majestic and useful trees. I remember it vividly, and time 
and again people have remarked to me what a delight it was to gather chestnuts. 
The chestnut blight has denied that pleasure to one generation of young 
Americans, but the coming of the Chinese chestnut trees gives you a chance to 
give it to your own children. Just buy the trees from us and take care of them. 
See booklet on page 4. 
Some persons think that nut trees are very slow growing and very late com- 
ing into bearing, but remember what the process of grafting is. We find the very 
best tree or trees out of thousands and make hundreds just like that original 
tree by sticking its twigs into the trunk of a tree that is not quite so valuable. 
Then we let that twig from the good tree become the whole of the new tree. 
One of the qualities of these selected Chinese Chestnut trees is that they are 
surprisingly early bearers. They will bear as soon as apples or peaches. Occasion- 
ally one bears the year it is set out. And as to quality, the very conservative Mr. 
C. A. Reed, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, has said this: 
Sethe best of the Chinese chestnuts are without peers among Known chest- 
nuts from any part of the world. They are large as average European chestnuts 
which appear on vendors’ stands from November to mid-winter. They are as 
sweet as were the best natives. When in the right stage of maturing, the pellicle 
of the kernel usually clings to the shell when the Kernel is being extracted.” 
. 2 - AMERICAN PERSIMMON. The flavor of this fruit is unexcelled and 
those who know it love it. The trees are pleasing features of a lawn and 
may be expected to do well on all but the higher elevations south of the line 
Boston—Albany—Buffalo. _ 
If there is any streak of experimentation in you try a couple of these inter- 
esting trees. 
3 The Austin JAPANESE CHESTNUT is continuing to make friends. The 
parent tree of this variety was awarded the largest money prize ever 
given for a nut tree in the United States. I have seen the parent tree in Dela- 
ware. It seems to be perfectly blight proof, although the native American stock 
on which it was grafted was badly affected. The nut is very large but very sweet. 
We were completely sold out last spring and do not know how long our small 
supply will last. 
4 HONEY LOCUST—The sensation of the year, after the Chinese persim- 
mons, was the way the honey locusts clustered themselves with long 
pods of beans. Great big, fat sugary pods hung in masses and ripened on test 
trees of the two honey locusts that I am offering. They have proved themselves 
in the Philadelphia climate. If you have a cow let her have a little fun. She likes 
candy as well as any girl. If you keep livestock in the pasture where these trees 
grow you will have to get up early in the morning if you. expect to find any 
beans on the ground. They will have been eaten at dawn by the quadrupeds. 
5 FILBERTS—We have had so many calls for filberts that we have added 
them to our list of offerings. They are interesting trees. 
Barcelona is the heavy bearer and Du Chilly is the pollenator. You must 
ks both. Six feet apart for a screen, fifteen feet apart in the (( open. 
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