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For these and other reasons - we are in something that ‘Sppraeunee a nu wa 
famine. Our stocks are low and in some lines we do not have any. Send in yo 
orders as early as you can. You will get trees or your money back. Please 
alternative order for anything but chestnuts, tree hazels, sees honey oe cu 
and blueberry. ! 
CUTTING BACK . : 
Nut trees have prodigious roots—roots that are long and act tiprones Ve 
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 al! of its top is to invite early death. I ‘kno 
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, ogee 
and when the nuts begin you will rejoice. sepa 
WAXED TRUNKS a et 
We wax the trunk with a special and expensive wax, to reduce evaporation. 
The price of this unguent has jumped fabulously but we keep on using it. We 
think it increases the chance of survival and we want the trees you buy ec USS 
to grow. 
é. POLLENATION 
So far as we ano everything that we sell except mulberry has better nays 4 
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 that blooms ee, 
same time will pollenate English walnuts. Sa 
1 CHINESE CHESTNUTS TO THE FORE. Each year that I expert ee ire 
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 cal 
best out of many thousands of seedling trees. They will bear nuts as soon as ap- Set ad i 
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. S. 
Dept. of Agriculture, has said this: 
“The best of the Chinese chestnuts are without. peers among known chest- pee: 
nuts from any part of the world.” | 
- I have been pleased to learn that Chinese chestnut trees from Sunny Ridge ned 
Have done well at Plattsburg, New York. This is on Lake Champlain, close to the. 73 
Canadian boundry, lattitude 4434, degrees North but: we cannot be sure cont they | 
will do that in all places of that latitude. 2 
_. In the spring of 1939 we transplanted some chestnut trees. They were three: o)gaae 
and four feet. high.. They were 6, 7, and 8 feet high with Spreading tops in 1943. oe 
Nearly all bore well in 1942 and again in 1943. Their record is one that you may are 
duplicate if you give the trees a chance. s 
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. ieee 
We are offering four varieties of Chinese chestnuts. We have nob. yet had aires 
time to find out if one is better than another. Zimmerman is the most erect tree. . 
Please let us select the varieties for you. 
_ CHINESE CHESTNUT TREES THAT HAVE RIPENED NUTS ha 
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 and larger, have matur-. 
ed nuts. These trees have been carefully marked. If you want some ae these PECt a i 
ed tree add $1.00 to the list price. All are grafted trees. ah BY 
The fact that a tree is grafted sometimes causes a delay in passage of sap “ioe | 
‘roots for winter storage. This excess moisture supply above the graft of a tree | 
may, in extreme locations, cause an early autumn freeze to kill the tree above the — 
graft. Therefore if you are on the northern edge of chestnut country I See yp 
that you begin with our seedlings. We have. seedlings of unusual ancestry. | a 
. STRAIGHT LINE SEEDLING CHESTNUT TREES | 
For generations the farmers in a locality northeast of Peking, eae ce 
been planting orchards of chestnut trees. Their trees are not grafted, 
