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New Era Cuestnut NURSERY 
September, 1948 
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NUTS IN 1952 OR SOONER 
The chances are about 20 to one in your favor 
that you will get chestnuts in 1952 or possibly soon- 
er if you plant in 1948 or 9 as follows: Plant one 
or more of each of two varieties of our grafted va- 
rieties near to each other (about 30 or 35 feet). 
Keep grass and weeds away from the trees until 
September first for 2 seasons. Fertilize well after 
the first year and you are in for a 2 party or a 3 
party race depending on whether it is you and boys, 
or you, boys and squirrels. 
Here is a passage from an unsolicited letter: 
From: Wasutneton, 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. 
Needless to say, I am delighted. Many thanks for 
the excellent stock that you sent.” 
THE THRILL OF GATHERING NUTS 
It thrills me to walk through the nursery in Sep- 
tember and October and see the glossy brown nuts 
peeping out of opening burrs and the nice nuts in 
the grass. 
Chinese Chestnuts To the Fore. Each year 
that I experiment with Chinese Chestnuts my opin- 
ion of them rises. If I were only 60 years old I’d 
plant a big field of them this year as my neighbor 
did, interplanted with peaches. Chestnuts are cer- 
tainly the most productive of all nut trees. They are 
also the most precocious. 
CHINESE CHESTNUT TREES THAT 
HAVE RIPENED NUTS 
If you are in a hurry for nuts you can get chest- 
nut trees that already have ripened some nuts. A 
few of our nursery trees have matured nuts. These 
trees have been carefully marked. If you want some 
of these proven trees add $1.50 to the list price. All 
are grafted trees. If you want one, do not ask by 
variety, just ask for a proven tree 4-5 or 5-6 ft. and 
include the extra charge. 
CUTTING BACK 
Nut trees have prodigious roots—roots that are 
long and not fibrous. We have to cut away some of 
this long root before we send your trees. To plant a 
tree with only part of its roots and all of its top is 
to invite early death. I know for I have done it. 
Therefore we cut the tops back to establish balance 
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and to help insure the success of transplanting. 
Therefore you need not expect the trees to be very 
handsome on arrival, but wait until growth begins 
and then admire, and when the nuts begin you will 
rejoice. 
WAXED TRUNKS 
We wax the trunks with a special and expensive: 
liquid wax, to reduce evaporation. The price of this 
unguent has jumped fabulously but we keep on 
using it. We think it increases the chance of sur- 
vival and we want the trees you buy from us to 
erow. We can’t keep on without your repeat orders 
and the orders from your friends who hear of your 
success. 
2. Chinese Persimmons. One of the excite- 
ments of the year at New Era Chestnut Nursery 
has been Chinese persimmons. Thirty varieties have 
produced fruit and some trees had all they could 
possibly hold. In growth habit they resemble pears. 
Grafted trees. Fruits 2% to 3 inches in diameter. 
They are early bearers as well as fruitful and doub- 
ly beautiful. A high class lawn ornament, and de- 
heious fruit. The tree resembles the orange with 
thick dark glossy foliage. 
3. The Black Walnut. The Black walnut is 
one of the most majestic trees in America, and it 
bears wonderful nuts. 
Grafted Walnut trees are as much superior to 
seedlings as are grafted apple trees, and the Thom- 
as variety has been tested longest. It stands the cold 
of southern Canada and does well in the heats of 
Texas. The nut has excellent flavor, the shell cracks 
easily, and kernels usually come out in complete 
quarters. Fine for nut bread, nut candy or crop to 
sell. 
Ohio variety is a rival of the Thomas and the 
tree is especially beautiful because of its perfect 
symmetry. 
Black walnuts are the nuts that keep their flavor 
in cooking. 
How about a row of them down your lane? Our 
6-7 ft. Thomas are extra heavy, very fine. Will bear 
in a hurry. See this unsolicited letter! 
Pirrstown, N. J. 7/19/43. “What surprises me 
most of all is the fact that I have walnuts on 3 
Thomas. They were 6 foot trees when planted in the 
spring of 1941.” The variety is precocious and pro- 
ductive.” 
