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with Chinese Chestnuts my opinion of them rises. Chestnuts are cer- 
tainly the most productive.of all nut trees. They are also the most precocious. 
Each of the other nut trees has its especial merits but in these two the chest- 
] CHINESE CHESTNUTS TO THE FORE. Each year that I experiment _ 
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nuts lead. The parent trees from which we propagate are the carefully selected — 
best out of many thousands of seedling trees. They will bear nuts as soon as ap- . 
ple or peach tree bears fruit. Occasionally one bears the year it is set out. What — 
about the quality of the nuts? Well the very conservative Mr. C. A. Reed, U. Saks, 
Dept. of Agriculture, has said this: 
“The best of the Chinese chestnuts are without peers among OW chest- : 
nuts from any part of the world.” 
I have been pleased to learn that Chinese chestnut trees Hon. sung Ridee 
have done well at Plattsburg, New York. This is on Lake Champlain, close te the 
Canadian boundry and North of the Adirondack Mountains, latitude 445 de- 
grees North. 
In the spring of 1939 we transplanted some chestnut trees. They were ree 
and four feet high. Now the trees are 6, 7, and 8 feet high with’spreading tops. — ; 
Nearly all bore well in 1942. Very fine trees. Price, bearing trees, bare root, $3.50; — 
ball of earth, $6.00. Ask for special lot A. 
Another lot of tall, straight, slender Zimmerman were transplanted in 1940. 
They are 8-10 feet tall, with small, high tops and are in bearing. Price, bare 
root, $4.00; with ball of earth, $6.00. Ask for special lot B. 
We are offering four varieties of Chinese chestnuts. We have not yet Bag 
time to find out if one is better than another. Zimmerman is the most erect tree. - 
CHINESE CHESTNUT TREES THAT HAVE RIPENED NUTS 
If you are in a hurry for nuts you can get chestnut trees that already have 
ripened some nuts. A number of chestnut trees, 5-6 feet, 6-7 feet, 7-8 feet, 8-9 
feet, have matured nuts. These trees have been carefully marked. If you want 
some of these proved trees add $1.00 to the list price. If you take it with ball of 
earth you will have nuts in a hurry. 
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. A tree that holds ripe fruit for a month or six weeks ~ 
is an interesting and useful citizen of your yard. 
If there is any streak of experimentation in you try planting some of these 
interesting persimmons. The trees are tall and cylindrical in shape. 
Early Golden. Has ripened fruit some seasons September 20th at Round Hill, 
Virginia, elevation 1350 ft. There had been no frost. 
This variety is one that has been longest in cultivation. 
“< Kansas. A native of Kansas, it has survived for years at Willisimebage Iowa, 
when apples, peaches and pears froze to death. It is probably our hardiest 
variety and very prolific. 
“Killen, a native of Delaware. Bill Wiley, our *possum hunter grafter, says 
that the fruit is the best of the lot. That’s a matter of opinion. 
3 ~~ CHINESE PERSIMMONS. One of the excitements of the year at Sunny 
Ridge Nursery has been Chinese persimmons grafted in nursery row ine = 
1940 and bearing all the fruit the trees had room for in 1942. In growth habit 
they resemble pears. Varieties>*Great Wall,Peiping. Both good, too soon to dif- 
ferentiate, Fruits 2% to 3 inches in diameter. 
BUTTERNUTS! At last a grafted butternut! So far as I know there is 
not another one for sale in the United States, but I have a few. 
HONEY LOCUST. Eventually the most important thing I ever did may 
be the introduction of the honey locust as a forage crop. The way the 
honey locusts clustered themselves with long pods of beans is very suggestive of 
a great new forage crop and possibly also a commercial sugan crop. (see book 
Tree Crops). Big, fat sugary pods hung in masses and ripened on test trees 
