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SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY, SPRING, 1943 
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Botte NUTS MUCH SOONER THAN WE THOUGHT | 
_ The early bearing habits of the grafted Chinese Che¢stnut trees puts a 
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Here are passages from unsolicited letters. 
quietus on the idea that nut trees are slow in beginning W ieos apr 
_ trees from you which are bearing fruit this year, and we like them very much. 
“Red Bank, N. J., Oct. 8, 1941 — On April 17, 1939, wé bought twd chestnut 
We would like to obtain more.” ; 
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_ Another customer writes, 9/27/41, Hancock, Md. — “One of my greatest joys 
was to pick up five chestnuts under your Chinese chestnut tree; @ squirrel beat 
me to three nuts.” Those trees were planted in 1941,but were unusually pre- 
- cocious. You may expect our chestunt trees to bear sooner than ‘apples if given 
as good care as the apple requires. as 
Now you would almost think he was a bantam rooster to hear him crowing’ 
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‘THE THRILL OF GATHERING NUTS a 
I fully understand 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 opening burrs and to find nice nuts on the ground. 
My satisfaction at this has no relation to such earthly matters as eating. 
Nut trees are fun, as well as food supply. ie 
I gave two seedling trees to one of my suburban neighbors some years ago. 
about the chestnuts 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 too may join 
the group of the sentimentally elect. 
ORDER EARLY — ORDER EARLY — ORDER EARLY 
? << It will be to your advantage to order early because (a) in some 
Ss lines we have but few trees, and it is possible that we may not have 
ae the stock to fill later orders. (b) Labor shortage may prevent late 
orders from being filled. This is no theoretic matter. The nursery is about 50 
miles from Washington, and Washington is a mining camp so far as crowding 
and feverish building of houses are concerned. Contractors are sending trucks 
out in the country each morning to within a few miles of our place, gathering 
up all available laborers, hauling them to Washington for a day’s work, hauling 
them back in the evening, and paying more than twice what we can afford to 
pay. We can’t tell when they may strip us. If you send us orders that we can’t 
_ ship we may have to have the great pain of sending your money back. I hope 
~ not. But an early order has very much better chance than a late one. 
We suggest that in ordering trees with ball of earth you give an alternative 
order of bare root trees. If we can’t ship the first we will ship the second and 
refund the difference, if there is any. 
EXTRA OFFER FOR EARLY ORDERS 
With every order of $7.50 accompanied by cheque and postmarked not later 
’ than March 29th we will include gratis, if requested, one straightline Chestnut 
seedling 2-3 feet or larger. See orange colored sheet. 
If you have to give a definite shipping date, please let it be as far ahead as 
you can. In the present state of labor and tires we can’t think of racing off 7 
miles to the station with one or two hurry orders. We will probably make about 
two station trips a week and a 2 days’ rain may hold up tree digging any time 
for the duration of the rain and a day or two of mud in addition. 
3 ee CUTTING BACK * | | 
Nut trees have prodigious roots—roots that are long and not fibrous. We 
have to cut away some of this long root before we send your trees. To plant a 
tree with only part of its roots and all of its top is to invite early death. There- 
fore we cut the tops back to establish balance and to help insure the success of 
transplanting. ¢ 
WAXED TRUNKS 
We wax the trunk with a special and expensive wax, to reduce evaporation. 
ees ; . POLLENATION 
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 
and filbert will pollenate hazel. 
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