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“The best of the Chinese chestnuts are without peers. among 
nuts from any part of the world.” : it 
And now the Department has just reledaed its latest best vorene the 
; king; seed of parent tree planted 1936, bore 2.3 lbs. 1943; 34.4 TOS. i445 rod: 
in 45; 1.0 lb. in *46 (big freeze) and 87.7 lbs. in 1947; total 163.2 Ibs. in. 6 yea 
Value at 40¢ per lb. $65.28. Don’t you want a couple of trees like this? I can is 
you some, but may have to limit the number to one purchaser. . 
We also have another new variety—Abundance; highly praised from. ‘south 
ern Ontario to Pennsylvania and Oregon. gi 
In the spring of 1939 we transplanted some chestnut trees in the nursery. | see a 
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, 3-4 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. Connecticut Yankee'and Zim-  ~— 
merman only. Others too young. 4 
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 
eraft. Therefore if you are on the northern edge of chestnut country in Zone IIL. 
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. — as 
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, tn 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 yours. =: 
friends who hear of your success. : 
POLLENATION 
So far as we know, everything that we sell except mulberry has better chance 
of yielding if it has a partner of same species and different variety to pollenaie 
the blossoms — except that wild trees near by may serve your black walnut. 
2 * CHINESE PERSIMMONS. One of the excitements of the year at Sunny 
Ridge Nursery has been Chinese persimmons. Thirty varieties have pro- 
duced fruit and some trees had all they could possibly hold. In growth habit they 
resemble pears. Grafted trees. Fruits 244 to 3 inches in diameter. They are very 
early bearers as well as fruitful and doubly beautiful. A high class lawn orna- 
ment. Anyone who plans these should follow our booklet and regard himself as 
experimenting. 
3 - AMERICAN PERSIMMONS. These are delicious fruits but our’ stock is 
f very low. Tree cylindrical, excellent lawn tree. 
4 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 several others are pollenators. You must 
have both. Please order Barcelona and pollenator. One pollenator to half a doz-— 
en Barcelonas is all right. Plant six feet apart for a screen, fifteen to twenty feet 
apart in the open. 
