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NEWS BULLETIN AND PRI 
- SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY, OCTO 
Swarthmore, Pa. & 
THESE PRICES GOOD UNTIL JANUARY Ist, 1948 
Will be accepted now for spring delivery. 
PLANT BLIGHT RESISTANT CHINESE CHESTNUT TREES 
la The Chinese Chestnut has passed the experimental stage. It is time to 
plant. 
Do you want to buy a chestnut tree no taller than you are which has already 
produced nuts? We have a few trees with that record. 
NUTS IN 1951 OR SOONER 
The chances are about 20 to one in your favor that you will get chestnuts in 
1951 or possibly sooner if you plant in 1948 as follows: Plant one or more of each 
of two varieties of our grafted varieties near to each other (about 30 or 35 feet). 
Keep grass and weeds away from the trees until September first for 2 seasons. 
Fertilize as our booklet directs and you are in for a 2 party or 3 party race de- 
pending on whether it is you and boys, or you, boys and squirrels. 
Here are passages from unsolicited letters: 
From Stoneham, Mass. 3/18/45 
“ a few nuts (about 30) from the trees you sold me in 1942. They went 
thru the winter of 1943 o.k.; temperatures were between 20 and 30 degrees below 
in Boston area. Varieties were Connecticut Yankee and seedlings.” 
From Chatham, N. J. 1/20/45 
“You may be interested to learn of my success with two Chinese Chestnuts 
(bare root) planted in the Spring of 1943 altho perhaps not as amazed as I was 
when each developed about 20 burrs the past Fall. About 5 of these bore large 
chestnuts, the others failing to fully develop.” 
Note. As the trees get larger there will be pollen for all blooms. Especially, note 
that both of the above planted in ’43 and got nuts in 44, but that is better than 
we promise everyone. 
From: Washington, D. C. | September 18, 1946. 
“In the fall of 1945 I purchased twelve Chinese chestnut trees from your 
nursery * * * To my utter amazement, these trees now bear little chestnuts. Need- 
less to say, I am delighted. Many thanks for the excellent stock that you sent 
me.” é, 
From River Road, Milton, Pa. 1/11/47 
“rT now have 90 of your nut trees (Hickory, Chestnut and Walnut) all doing 
well and from one to three years since planting.” 
THE THRILL OF GATHERING NUTS 
It thrills me to walk through the nursery in September and October and see 
the glossy brown nuts peeping out of opening burrs and nice nuts in the grass. 
_CHINESE CHESTNUTS TO THE FORE. Each year that I experiment with 
Chinese Chestnuts my opinion of them rises. Chestnuts are certainly 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 chestnuts lead. The parent 
trees from which we propagate are the carefully selected best out of many thou- 
sands of seedling trees. What about the quality of the nuts? Well, the very con- 
servative Mr. C. A. Reed, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, has said this: 
“The best of the Chinese chestnuts are without peers among k be 
nuts from any part of the world.” ¥ Bron ches: igh 
And now the Department has just released its latest best variety, the Nan- 
king; seed planted 1936, bore 2.3 lbs. 1943; 34.4 lbs. in 44: 37.8 lbs. in ‘48: 1.0 PG 
’46—low yield because of deadly freeze. Value at 40¢ per lb. $31.20. I can sell you 
some trees but may have to limit the number to one purchaser. 
We also have another new variety—Abundance. 
