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SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY, JANUARY, sary eatee | 
Swarthmore, Pa. 
\ THESE PRICES GOOD UNTIL MAY Ist, 1947 
BUY BLIGHT RESISTANT CHINESE CHESTNUT TREES 
1 The Chinese Chestnut has passed the experimental stage. It is time to 
. plant. I don’t mean to say that we shall not know more about them fifty 
years from now, but I have completed 20 years of experimentation with them 
and I can give some conclusions which warrant you in planting them in chestnut 
climate in any well drained soil that is not highly alkaline. 
Do you want to buy a chestnut tree no taller than you are which has already 
produced nuts? We have some trees with that record. 
Here are unsolicited letters: 
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, Iam delighted. Many thanks for the excellent stock that you sent 
me.” ; 
From: McKeesport, Pa. 
“Three walnut trees I got from you two years ago produced this year.” 
From: Canadaigua, N. Y. 
. « “IT have three Chinese Chestnuts that I purchased from you a few years ago, 
and they have been satisfactory and are bearing nicely.” 
From: Catawissa, Pa. 
“In 1939 I planted a Connecticut Yankee and a Zimmerman, and they are 
doing fine. Have borne nuts every year since. Scarce last year due to early warm 
spell in March and then a late frost.” 
From: Fitchburg, Mass. . 
“In view of the fact that the chestnut trees bought from you some years ago 
were put in the ground and went through a hurricane, two or three floods, and 
were not given the care I feel they should have received, but at the same time 
did bear chestnuts last fall, I am going to put out quite a few trees this spring.” 
The above were unusually precocious trees, but you may expect our Chestnut 
trees to bear sooner than apples if given as good care as the apple requires. 
NUTS IN 1950 OR SOONER 
The chances are about 20 to one in your favor that you will get chestnuts in 
1950 if you plant in 1947 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 a2 party or 3 party race depending on whether 
it is you and boys, or you, boys and squirrels. 
TRE 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. 
My satisfaction at this has no relation to such earthly matters as eating. That 
comes later. Nut trees are fun, as well as food supply. They give you a sense of 
achievement when you see them produce their nuggets of nutrition. 
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 known chest- 
nuts from any part of the world.” 
