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NEWS BULLETIN AND PRI¢e ‘List’ * 
_SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY, OCTOBER 1948-06 of agriculture 
SWARTHMORE, PA. 
THESE PRICES GOOD UNTIL JUNE Ist, 1949 
PLANT OUR BLIGHT RESISTANT CHINESE CHESTNUT TREES 
We have the best varieties now obtainable in the United States. The 
Chinese Chestnut has passed the experimental stage. They are thriving 
from Massachusetts to southern Iowa and eastern Oklahoma and from southern 
Michigan to northern Florida. It is time to plant. We Sell grafted trees. Nearly 
every other nursery is selling seedings only. There’s a difference. See New 
Jersey Experiment Station bulletin No. 717, New Brunswick, N. J. to see how 
great a difference. No one expects to plant an orchard of seedling apples, or 
peaches, or pears, or cherries, but watch out or some one will be selling you some 
seedling chestnut trees and letting you think they are grafted. 
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 1952 OR SOONER 
The chances are about 20 to one in your favor that you will get chestnuts in 
1952 or possibly sooner if you plant in 1949 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: 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.” 
From River Road, Milton, Pa., 1/11/47 
“T now have 90 of your nut trees (Hickory, Chestnut and Walnut) all doing 
well and from one to three years since planting.” 
From Greenfield, Mass., May 16, 1944. 
“Three grafted Connecticut Yankee Chestnut trees and a seedling are all 
leafing out, have survived the most tree killing winter we have experienced in 
some years.” 
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 cf 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. 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 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 care- 
fully selected best out of many thousands of seedling trees. What about the 
quality of the nuts? Well, the very conservative Mr. C. A. Reed, U. S. Dept. of 
Agriculture, has said this: . 
