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OUR TREES ARE FOR THE NORTH. 
The rubber industry of the Far East is derived from the seed of Brazilian 
rubber trees grown in the greenhouses of Kew Gardens, London. The Kew trees 
were raised from seed carried from Brazil by Sir Clements Markham. 
By a similar process, we are raising northern trees in the northernmost 
corner of Virginia on the slope of the Blue Ridge Mountain and expect them to 
do well in Massachusetts and Michigan. Here is the way we do it. 
We use walnut seed from Minnesota, on seedlings of this tough origin we’ 
graft the Tasterite walnut which grows on the cold plaveau near Ithaca, New 
York. This is our fartherest North Walnut. 
The cions of shagbark trees from Minnesota, from Michigan, and from 
Ontario,, are grafted on young seedling trees grown from Quebec nuts. Per- 
simmon seed from Northern Missouri and Kansas are grafted with cions of per- 
simmons that have done well in Iowa. The seed for our grafted chestnut stocks | 
has been imported from Tientsin, in North China. Our Chinese persimmons were 
imported personally from the extreme northern range of Chinese persimmons. 
» I have seen snow two feet deep at Sunny Ridge Nursery, and Tr have ex- 
perienced temperatures of 30° below zero in that neighborhood. 
The temperature records from Peking, China, and Omaha, Nebraska, are al- 
most identical as to average temperatures | for July and average temperatures for 
January. 
Our Chinese persimmons and our “chestnuts came from bie vicinity of 
Peking, some of the persimmons from further west. 
This should not, however, be taken as a statement that our persimmons 
will thrive in Omaha, Nebraska. I do not know. There may be quirks in the cli- 
mate, such as spring thaws or warm November days, that make a difference. It 
-should be clearly understood that the Chinese persimmons are offered experi- 
mentally. They are thriving in the nursery, which is in climate almost like that 
of Philadelphia, and we invite people to experiment with them: They bear early. 
The chestnuts are doing well in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Here and 
there somebody gets them in a frost pocket and they die, while a man on higher 
ground 50 miles farther north has them thriving. 
EARLY PLANTING. It is desirable to plant trees as soon as you can. The 
tree cannot start growth until it has got earth settled closely against its roots. It 
can then draw moisture and nutrients and begin business. (See our booklet on 
planting.) : ‘ | 
If you can not get them planted early be sure that there are no air pockets 
beneath-the roots and. that the earth about the tree is soaked with water so that. 
it makes a mud contact with the roots. That lets absorption begin. 

NORTHERN NUT GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 
You probably will want to join. George L. State, Secretary, Geneva, N. Y. 
This is a varied collection of interesting people (doctors, lawyers, merchants, 
manufacturers, professors, farmers, spinsters) who have nut trees for avocation 
—annual meeting an unusual summer vacation event. 

Reading Guides For The Owner Of Nut Trees’. 
1. THE PLANTING, FERTILIZATION, & CARE OF NUT TREES AND 
. PERSIMMONS by J. Russell Smith, ScD, postpaid 25¢. ° 
Don’t buy good trees and then kill them by misguided care. This booklet 
will save you many times its cost and in¢rease the results for all but the most 
skillful. 
