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Straight Line Seedling Chestnuts 
For generations the farmers in a locality northeast of Peking, China, have 
been planting orchards of chestnut trees. Their trees are not grafted. 
When planting they naturally use the seed from the best trees. No chestnut 
will come absolutely true from seed, but this process of selecting the best seeds 
generation after generation makes seedling trees that produce nuts of unusual- 
ly uniform quality for seedlings. 
As a result of my travels in China I managed to get two small shipments of 
these seedling chestnuts through the war clouds. 
I can spare a small number of these straight line seedlings. If you like to 
-try out new things here’s a chance. You might get the best chestnut tree in 
America. Two years old, two feet high. 
Price each, 75¢. Three trees for $2.00. Six trees for $3.75. Not more than six 
trees to any one person. We want to get wide distribution. 
An Unusual Cherry Tree—The July Queen 
Here is a secret of the cherry tree business. The easy way for nurserymen 
to grow them is to bud or graft the good varieties onto a young tree of a variety 
known as the Mahaleb. This is a European tree. It has nice roots, transplants 
easily, is easy to graft or bud. It is easy to grow trees in the nursery on Mahaleb 
roots. The trouble is they are short-lived in the orchard. 
There is another species of cherry known as the mazzard. They grow wild 
in the fence rows and fields, even in the woods, over many of our Eastern 
States. They have a much better root system than the Mahaleb. Forty years ago 
_ these trees were to be found by the hundred in the vicinity of the Sunny Ridge 
Nursery, at Round Hill, Virginia. I have seen mazzard trees two feet in diameter 
that were known to have as much as 300 gallons of fruit on them. We called 
them black hearts and red hearts. 
In recent years some mysterious ailment has killed nearly all these trees. 
Here and there a tough one has survived, and one of these has been called to 
my attention because of its physical vigor combined with its unusual fruiting 
habits. It ripens in July after all the fine opr Ovee cherries are finished and 
pone. 
I cannot claim that the fruit is as large as some of the standard commercial 
sorts that ripen ahead of it. Its two virtues are the physical vigor of the tree 
combined with the lateness of the fruit, which is a very good fruit, red and firm. 
I have a small number of these special mazzard trees grafted on mazzard 
roots. Price, 4-5 ft., $1.00; 5-7 ft., $1.25. 
