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Q ENGLISH WALNUT. The drought has held them down in size but we 
have a moderate stock of 2-3 foot trees. They are sound little trees and 
would have been twice as high if we had missed two droughts. © 
10 TURKISH TREE HAZEL (Corylus colurna). This is a remarkably beauti- 
ful tree. It develops sharp conical shape with unusually perfect sym- 
metry. The bark is of corky texture. Early to leaf out in spring and carries its 
leaf late in the autumn. Nuts are in a large burr, sometimes as many as 10 to 
the burr. It is a rapid grower, reaching 80 ft. in height. Hardy in Iowa and New 
England. 
1] HAZEL X FILBERT HYBRIDS. These two interesting nuts have been 
crossed. I have planted nuts from these hybrid trees. It is in these seed- 
ling plants that. the hybrid variations will appear. 
12 AMERICAN PERSIMMONS. These are delicious fruit but we are sold out. 
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 an Englishman. 
By a similar process, we are raising northern trees in the northernmost 
corner of Virginia on the slope of the Blue Ridge Hountain not far from Harpers 
Ferry 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 plateau near Ithaca, New 
York. This is our fartherest North Walnut. Rete 
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. 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 I 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 the 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 inthe cli- 
mate, such as spring thaws or warm November days, that make a difference. It 
should be clearly understood that the Chinese persimmons, when we have stock 
again, will be offered experimentally. 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. wee oe : 
| EARLY PLANTING : RY 
If you can not get trees 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, 
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