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For these and other reasons we are in something that approaches a nut tree fi 
famine. Our stocks are low and in some lines we do not have any» Send in your = 
orders as early as you can. You will get trees or your money back. The earliest ~~ 
orders will get the trees. BO es Sha cy 
| CUTTING BACK Be a 
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 be 
tree with only part of its roots and all of its top is to invite early death. I know 
for I have done it. Therefore we cut the tops back to establish balance and to 
help insure the success of transplanting. Therefore you need. not expect the trees _ 
to be very handsome on arrival, but wait until growth begins and then admire  - 
and when the nuts begin you will rejoice. They are all cut back unless there is 
special request that they shall not be. 
WAXED TRUNKS 
We wax the trunk with a special and expensive wax, to reduce evaporation. ee ORE 
The price of this unguent has jumped to 3 dollars a gallon but we keep on using ; 
it. We think it increases the chance of survival and we want the trees you buy 
from us to grow. . 
- 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 or any other walnut will pollenate Eng- 
lish walnut. 
1 CHINESE CHESTNUTS TO THE FORE. Each year that I experiment 
| 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- 
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? Weil the very conservative Mr. C. A. Reed, U. S. 
Dept. of Agriculture, has said this: See 
“The best of the Chinese chestnuts are without peers among known chest- . 
nuts from any part of the world.” Bora Oe 
I have been pleased to learn that Chinese chestnut trees. from Sunny Ridge 
have done well at Plattsburg, New York. This is on Lake Champlain, close to the 
Canadian boundry and North of the Adirondack Mountains, latitude 4434 de- 
grees North but we cannot be sure that they will do that in all place of that lati- ~ 
tude, ; = . e 
In the spring of 1939 we transplanted some chestnut trees. They were three 
and four feet high. They were 6, 7, and 8 feet high with spreading tops in 1943.. 
Nearly all bore well in 1942 and again in 1943. Their record is one that you may 
duplicate if you give the trees a chance. 
Another lot of tall, straight, slender Zimmerman were transplanted with 
bare roots in 1940. They were 8-10 feet tall and many of them bore in 1942 and 
in 1943 and then were sold. We think their record justifies you in buying 7-8 and ~ 
8-9 foot trees if you are in a hurry. We have a few such. foe. 
We are offering four varieties of Chinese chestnuts. We have not yet had © 
time to find out if one is better than another. Zimmerman is the most erect tree. 
Please let us select the varieties for you. © Lae e 
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, 3-4 feet, have matured nuts. ~ 
These trees have been carefully markd. If you want some of these proved trees 
add $1.00 to the list price. All are grafted trees. | 
2 CHINESE PERSIMMONS. One of the excitements of the year at Sunny 
Ridge Nursery has been Chinese persimmons grafted in nursery row — 
and bearing all the fruit the trees had room for two years and six months after — 
grafting. In growth habit they resemble pears. Grafted trees. Fruits 2% to 3 
inches in diameter. Owing to scarcity of stocks and labor difficulties we have 
no trees to offer this year, | a 
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