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_ “When eee they naturally use the seed from the best trees. No chestnut 
Il come absolutely true from seed, but this process of selecting the best seeds 
eneration after generation makes seedling trees that produce nuts of unusually 
niform quality for seedlings. 
Asa result of my travels in China I managed. to get two small shipments of 
seeds from these trees through the war clouds. 
I can spare a small number of these straight nae seedlings. If you like to try 
out new things here’s a chance. You might get the best chestnut tree in America. 
The second year after planting about one tree in seventy had nuts, nice large 
ones. This is a much better showing than any other seedlings I have tested. 
Price. 2-31. transplanted. 2624.0... esse «each. $2.00 
hig ; CHINESE PERSIMMONS. One of the excitements of the year at Sunny 
Oo 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 24% to 3 
- Inches in diameter. Owing to difficulty of grafting we have very few trees to of- 
fer this year. Each tree that we have means one tree that succeeded while ten 
failed to take when grafted. Price, 2-3 ft., $10.00 each. 
Gas HONEY LOCUST. Eventually the most important thing I ever did may 
Re) be the introduction of the honey locust as a forage crop. The way these 
pak trees cluster themselves with long pods of beans is very suggestive of a great new 
; forage crop and possibly also a commercial sugar crop. (see book Tree Crops by J. 
Russell Smith, out of print, try good library). The small beans are embedded in 
big fat sugary pods that hang in masses and ripen on test trees of both varieties 
that we offer. They have proved themselves in the Philadelphia climate. If you 
have a cow let her have a little fun. She likes candy as well as any girl. If you 
keep livestock in the pasture where these trees grow you will have to get up early 
in the morning if you expect to find any beans on the ground. They will have 
been eaten at dawn by the quadrupeds. Varieties: Calhoun and Millwood. No 
known difference between these two varieties as yet. The pods have been an- 
alyzed and found to contain 30% of sugar. That is the reason they are devoured 
so greedily. They drop their pods for several weeks to the enrichment of fall 
pastures and they begin to bear young AND THE TREES ARE THORNLESS. 
We have some 8-10 foot trees that can be planted in pastures above the 
reach of cows and therefore without special protection. 
Plant 35 to 50 feet apart in pastures. You will get just as much grass or 
more and lots of corn substitute besides. The BpEn top of their feathery foliage 
lets light through to the grass. 
The tree has sprawling habits and the trees you buy may be crooked, fh 
their intentions are honorable and the promise of harvests is good. 
A - HIGH BUSH BLUEBERRY. The arrival of this new crop is the horticul- 
tural sensation of the decade. I have four varieties, Concord, Cohansey, 
Jersey and Ridgeway. They will give you a succession of berries for two months 
beginning June 20 in the climate of central New Jersey and later as one goes 
north. We suggest you leave the varieties to us. 
se 5 FILBERTS—For a long while I turned up my nose » at filberts but I had 
a few trees. At last the handsome way they grow won my attention. 
Picking up the nuts won my affection. Eating them confirmed it, and now I’m 
-__an enthusiast starting a test orchard and selling the proved standard varieties. 
Try some. They are intimate yard trees and very good screens. 
Barcelona is the heavy bearer and Du Chilly and several others are pollena- 
i, tors. You must have both. Please order Barcelona and pollenator. One pollenator 
to half a dozen Barcelonas is all right. Plant six feet apart for a screen, fifteen 
to twenty feet apart in the open. 
HAZEL NUT. Sold out. See us next ‘fall. 
NEW SHAGBARKS. THINNER SHELLS, BIG KERNELS, COMPLETE HALVES 
3 7 - Perhaps you remember the long scales of bark on a tree that some call- 
Rec, ed shellbark and others called shagbark (Carya ovata to be exact). You 
picked up the nuts with delight. 
bi _ They were pretty, the flavor delicious, and you had difficulty in getting the 
