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the blossoms — except that black walnut or any other walnut that blooms at 
same time will pollenate English walnuts. 
2 CHINESE PERSIMMONS. One of the excitements of the year at Sunny 
Ridge Nursery has been Chinese persimmons. Thirty varieties bore fruit 
and some trees had all they could possibly hold. 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 offer this year. Each tree that we have means 
one tree that succeeded while ten failed to take when grafted. Last year we had 
3 dozen trees. This year we have 5 dozen nicer ones. Anyone who plants these 
should follow our booklet and regard himself as experimenting. 
3 HONEY LOCUST. Eventually the most important thing I ever did may 
be the introduction of the honey locust as a forage crop. The way these 
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 open top of their feathery foliage 
lets light through to the grass. Tennessee experiment station reports that such 
light shading increased grass yield. x 
The tree has sprawling habits and the trees you buy may be crooked, but 
their intentions are honorable and the promise of harvests is excellent. 
4 HIGH BUSH BLUEBERRY. The arrival of this new crop is the horticul- 
tural sensation of the decade. I have 3 varieties, Burlington, Jersey; 
“Rancocas. They will give you a succession of berries for 6 weeks beginning in 
June in the climate of central New Jersey and later as one goes north. We sug- 
gest you leave the varieties to us. 
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- 
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. f 
6 HAZEL NUT. Sold out. See us next fall. 
NEW SHAGBARKS. THINNER SHELLS, BIG KERNELS, COMPLETE HALVES 
7 Perhaps you remember the long scales of bark on a tree that some call- 
ed shellbark and others called shagbark (Carya ovata to be exact). You 
picked up the nuts with delight. 
They were pretty, the flavor delicious, and, you had difficulty in getting the 
kernels. Well, that’s over. Enthusiastic members of the Northern Nut Growers 
Association have searched the woods from Canada to Carolina these last 30 years 
and found the master trees. I am testing about 50 varieties. The shagbarks we 
sell will give you most of their kernels in halves. These are genius trees. 
If you fertilize the trees you will be surprised at the speed with which the 
shagbarks grow. I’ve seen them make 3 feet in a stason. We have several varie- 
