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every respect, except that the flavor is milder and better for eating out of hand, 
and the apple is not so hard. Therefore a home variety. Every family needs one. 
| 14 OAKS. We have a fine lot. Ask for our special tree list. 
1 5 HIGH BUSH BLUEBERRY. The arrival of this new crop is the horticul- 
' _ tural sensation of the decade. I have 3 varieties. They will give you a 
succession of berries for 5 or 6 weeks beginning in June in the climate of central 
New Jersey and later as one goes north. Be sure to read our blueberry leaflet and 
try the Blueberry Kings Packet. All right for southern Maine, New Hampshire 
and southern Wisconsin and down to Georgia. 
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. 
_ Similarly we grow trees of northern strains in the northernmost corner of 
Virginia on the slope of the Blue Ridge Mountain not far from Harpers Ferry 
which is farther north than southern New Jersey and with a much more severe 
climate. Therefore we expect them to live 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 farthest North Walnut. . 
The cions of shagbark trees from Wisconsin, from Michigan, and from On- 
tario, are grafted on young seedling trees grown from Quebec nuts. Persimmon 
seed from Northern Missouri and Kansas are grafted with cions of persimmons 
that have done well in Iowa. Our Chinese persimmon varieties were imported 
personally from the extreme northern range of Chinese persimmons. 
_‘ The climate of Peiping, China, and Omaha, Nebraska, are almost identical as 
to average temperatures for July and average temperatures for January. 
Our Chinese persimmons and our chestnuts came from the vicinity of 
Peiping, 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 doubt it. There may be quirks in the eli- 
mate, such as spring thaws or warm November days followed by freezes that 
make a difference. It should be clearly understood that the Chinese persimmons, 
are grown in climate almost like that of Philadelphia but somewhat more severe, 
and they are thriving in South Eastern Pennsylvania, and that any planter is ex- 
perimenting. 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. 
OUR SEEDLING DEPARTMENT 
We have some seedling English walnuts. Seed from a northern Oregon orch- 
ard. Well worth trying. 
Japanese Walnut. A handsome tree, rapid grower, very hard to graft, bears 
heart-shaped nuts in clusters and strings. 
An unusual line of Chinese chestnut seedlings. 
EARLY PLANTING & FALL PLANTING 
Early planting is desirable and 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 (which is life for trees) begin. 
FALL PLANTING is OK. south of line, New York - Pittsburg - Columbus, O. - In- 
dianapolis and St. Louis, Mo. 
SPECIAL TREE LIST describing small lots and special trees. Oaks, butter- 
nuts, butternut hybrids, grafted filberts and larger size trees. 
: NORTHERN NUT GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 
This is a varied collection of interesting people, no two alike, (doctors, 
lawyers, merchants, manufacturers, professors, farmers, spinsters) who have nut 
trees for ayocation—annual meeting an unusual summer vacation event. 

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