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“The best of the Chinese chestnuts are without peers among known chest- 
nuts from any part of the world.” 
And now the Department has released its latest best variety, the Nanking; 
seed of parent tree planted 1936, bore 2.3 lbs. 1943; 34.4 lbs. in 44; 37.8 lbs. in 45; 
1.0 lb. in ’46 (big freeze) and 87.7 lbs. in 1947; total 163.2 lbs. in 5 years. Value at 
40¢ per lb. $65.28. Don’t you want trees like this? I can sell you some. My 
neighbor planted 150 of them. Wish I had a field full of them. 
We also have another new variety—-Abundance; highly praised from south- 
ern Ontario to Pennsylvania and Oregon, and the old standards, Zimmerman 
and Connecticut Yankee. Let us pick the varieties for you. 
In the spring of 1939 we transplanted some chestnut trees in the nursery. 
They were three and four feet high. In 1943 they were 6, 7, and 8 feet high with 
spreading tops. Nearly all bore well in 1942 and again in 1943. Their record is 
one that you may duplicate if you give the trees a chance. 
CHINESE CHESTNUT TREES THAT HAVE RIPENED NUTS 
If you are in a hurry for nuts you can get chestnut trees that already have 
ripened some nuts. A few chestnut trees, 4-5 feet and larger, 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. Do not ask by variety. Just 
say 4-5 or 5-6 feet proven tree. 
TWO VARIETIES ON ONE TREE 
Have a few of these for people with small space. 
V CONARD — The Blizzard Strain 
3 We have a few trees propagated from a tree that grows in Iowa and 
lived through the Armistice Day storm of 1940 that killed many apples 
in that locality. Recommended for cold locations. Get a selected seedling to 
pollenate. 
HARDY SEEDLINGS 
The fact that a tree is grafted sometimes causes a delay in passage of sap to 
roots for winter storage. This excess moisture supply above the graft of a tree 
may, in extreme locations, cause an early autumn freeze to kill the tree above the 
graft. Therefore, if you are on the northern edge of chestnut country in Zone II 
or III of Rehders map p. 7 of our booklet, “Nut Trees for Cold Climates,” I sug- 
gest that you begin with our seedlings. We have a few seedlings of unusual an- 
cestry, direct from a Chinese neighborhood where seedling seed have been select- 
ed generation after generation. STRAIGHT LINE SEEDLINGS we call them. A 
few of this lot bore when 18 months old. 
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 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 trunk with a special and expensive 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 survival and we want the trees you buy from us 
to grow. We can’t keep on without your repeat orders and the orders from your 
friends who hear of your success. 
POLLENATION 
So far as we know, everything that we sell except mulberry and hazel nut has 
better chance of yielding if it has a partner of same species and different variety 
to porenate the blossoms — except that wild trees nearby may serve your black 
walnut. 
4 CHINESE PERSIMMONS. One of the excitements of the autumn at 
Sunny Ridge 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 very early bearers as well as fruitful and doubly beautiful. A high class lawn 
ornament. Anyone who plants these should follow our booklet and regard himself 
as experimenting. 
AMERICAN PERSIMMONS. These are delicious fruits but our stock is 
5 very low. Tree cylindrical, excellent lawn tree. 
6 FILBERTS—For a long while I turned up my nose at filberts but I had 
- @ 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 several others are pollenators. You must 
