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_ farmer fed his sheep by shaking the honey locust branches with a pole. Said it 
- saved short feet and long feed. Zone V and south. 3 | 
reas Plant 35 to 50 feet apart in pastures. You will get just as much grass or 
-- more and a ton or two of grain equivalent per acre. The open top of their feath- 
' ery foliage lets light through to the grass. Tennessee experiment station reports 
_ that such open shading INCREASED GRASS YIELD. : 
ar The tree has sprawling habits and the trees you buy may be crooked, but 
_ Ihave seen them straighten and the promise of harvests is excellent. 
et 1 3 SUPERTRANS APPLE. I have an apple that no other nursery known to 
is us Offers. It is of Russian origin, much like the yellow transparent in 
_ every respect, except that the flavor is milder and better for eating out of hand, 
and the apple is not so hard. Therefore a home variety. Every family needs one. 
14 OAKS. We have a fine lot. Ask for our special tree list. 
ae 15 HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY. The arrival of this new crop is the horticul- 
“© _ tural sensation of the decade. I have 3 varieties. They. will give you a 
_ succession of berries for 5 or 6 weeks beginning in June in the climate of central 
_ New Jersey and later as one goes north. Be sure to read our blueberry leaflet and 
_ try the Blueberry Kings Packet. All right for southern Maine, New Hampshire 
and southern Wisconsin and down to Georgia and west to the Mississippi. 
72 ee OUR TREES ARE FOR THE NORTH 
_ The rubber industry of the Far East is derived from the seed of Brazilian - 
_ rubber trees grown in the greenhouses of Kew Gardens, London. The Kew trees 
_ were raised from seed carried from Brazil by an Englishman. 
Similarly we grow trees of northern strains in the northernmost corner of 
_ Virginia on the slope of the Blue Ridge Mountain not far from Harpers Ferry 
_ which is farther north than southern New Jersey and with a much more severe 
_ climate. Therefore we expect them to live in Massachusetts and Michigan. Here 
is the way we do it. 
__. We use walnut seed from Minnesota. On seedlings of this tough origin we 
graft trees for Northern customers. ; 
The ions of shagbark trees from Wisconsin, from Michigan, and from On- 
_ tario, are grafted on young seedling trees grown from Quebec nuts. Persimmon 
_ seed from Northern Missouri and Kansas are grafted with cions of persimmons 
_ that have done well in Iowa. Our Chinese persimmon varieties were imported 
- personally from the extreme northern range of Chinese persimmons. 
ie The climate of Peiping, China, and Omaha, Nebraska, are almost identical as 
_ to average temperatures for July and average temperatures for January. 
Our Chinese persimmons and our chestnuts came from the vicinity of 
-- Peiping, some of the persimmons from further- west. 
This should not, however, be taken as a statement that our persimmons 
- will thrive in Omaha, Nebraska. I doubt it. There may be quirks in the cli- 
- mate, such as spring thaws-or warm November days followed by freezes that 
make a difference. It should be clearly understood that the Chinese persimmons, 
are grown in climate almost like that of Philadelphia but somewhat more severe, 
~ and they are thriving in South Eastern Pennsylvania with reports of success 
from 39° north in changeable Indiana, and that any planter is experimenting. 
_ They bear early, very early. 
The chestnuts are doing well in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Here and 
there somebody gets them in a frost pocket and they die, while a man on higher 
ground 50 miles farther north has them thriving. 

ook | : OUR SEEDLING DEPARTMENT 
a We have some seedling English walnuts. Seed from a northern Oregon orch- 
_ ard. Well worth trying. | 
Japanese Walnut. A handsome tree, rapid grower, very hard to graft, bears 
- heart-shaped nuts in clusters and strings. 
An unusual line of Chinese chestnut seedlings. 
| - EARLY PLANTING & FALL PLANTING 
Early planting is desirable and be sure that there are no air pockets beneath 
_ the roots and that the earth makes close contact with the roots. That lets ab- 
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