Ready to Drop from the Burrs of 
Your Own Quick-Bearing Trees 
for the Whole Family to Munch 
First Harvest in Just Two Years! 
OW you can grow Chestnuts! Only two years from this fall, right 
in your own grounds, you can pick big, fat, tasty Chestnuts from 
the trees you plant this spring! Remember gathering Chestnuts 
in the good old days—haven’t you felt sorry for your children because 
they couldn’t? The devastating blight that stripped our forests of the 
native Chestnut was an American tragedy! Now these hardy, blight- 


Doesn't this bring back memories of your childhood, 
gathering chestnuts in the woods with a gunny sack : : ; 
after the first cutting frost? Look at these big fat resistant Chestnut trees will bring them back. More than that, you need 
nuts, three to a burr. What a privilege to have them not wait 15 to 20 years for nuts—they’ll bear year after next! 
on your own grounds so q f . ° ° A 
2. oS ela Very long-lived, they are an ornamental investment that will continue to 
repay you for years and years. From about Sept. 15 each year, you'll reap a 
royal harvest of big, shiny, taste-tempting Chestnuts for eating raw, for 
roasting, for Chestnut stuffing in the Thanksgiving turkey. 
This treasure has been years in the making, thoroughly tested and bred for 
Chestnut Trees are considered the most productive definite blight-resistance. Of sturdy Chinese stock, the trees are quick and 
nut trees grown in northern latitudes! They do better prolific bearers, usually produce 3 sweet, full-flavored nuts to a burr—delicious 
in poor soil than any other nut, but grow mote as the old native American, a little larger-sized, hardy in the same general areas. 
rapidly and reward you handsomely for the fertilizer No waiting—you get your first harvest two years after planting. They have 
you give them. They thrive in acid soils and yet are been known to bear nuts when little more than shoulder high. Plant a few of 
at home in alkaline soil; do not like “‘wet feet.’’ They these superb, blight-resistant Chestnut Trees in your yard—a dozen or more on 
even like open, exposed and wind-swept spots. your estate—they’re wonderful! 
One of the finest of ornamental trees, here used in the flower border, 
bestowing its ripening harvest of nuts along with the Fall Asters 
ana Chrysanthemums in bloom. 
The J. & P. Blight-Resistant Chestnut Trees you plant this spring will 
quickly bring beauty and distinction to your yard or grounds. In 
addition to their ornamental attraction and unusual interest, at 
Chestnut-time they unite the happy memories of your own childhood 
with those of your children when they have gathered the nuts in a 
couple of years. The graceful trees are free-growing with attractive, 
glossy, rich green leaves on low-sweeping branches; when mature 
they are of medium size as in the picture at bottom of page. 
Big 5 to 7-Ft. Trees 
3-year-old nursery-grown trees, ready to start 
to grow for you. We suggest you plant at least 
two this spring. 3 for $10. 
3 to 5-Ft. Trees 
cei Roe BASEN trees of the same 
quality as the larger trees above, to plant 
a larger area at lower cost. ‘ 3 for $6.75 
J. & P. Blight-Resistant Chestnut Trees are shipped trimmed 
ready to plant and come to you Express Charges Collect. 
Planting instructions included 
with every order 

















With the bag already full, Lae 
those fat, delicious nuts in the burr 
she's holding! 

A 15-year-old tree like the one at left 
will bear as much as a bushel of nuts 
in a Season. 



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