GROW THE CHINESE CHESTNUT 
FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT 
The Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima) is the 
blight resistant successor to the American chestnut 
familiar to a great many people in the eastern United 
States. It is a wonderful nut for home use and is 
being grown commercially in many localities. We are 
pleased to be able to offer again seed nuts and seed- 
ling trees of pure Chinese chestnut inheritance, grown 
in the South where production is highest, where nuts 
are largest, and where trees are vigorous and largest 
for their age. 
The trees producing our seed nuts are seedling 
and topworked trees representing the best strains of 
pure Chinese chestnut introduced from southern China 
by the U. S. Department of Agriculture; in fact, three 
of the seedling trees in the orchard are the parent 
trees of the Nanking, Meiling, and Kuling varieties 
released for distribution by the U.S.D.A. in January, 
1949. The removal or topworking of all trees exhibit- 
ing such undesirable characteristics as low yields,and 
the production of small nuts and nuts of poor keeping 
quality further supports our claim of superior merit 
for the nuts and trees we offer for sale. 
Our seed nuts are properly harvested and stored to 
give a high percentage germination. They will average 
approximately 50 per pound, but will vary in each lot 
shipped from about 30 to 65 per pound. All lots are 
hand culled the day shipped. 
Our seedling trees are grown under favorable cli- 
matic conditions, and are large for their age, stocky, 
and have good root systems. The fact that we can 
offer 1 year old trees in 4 to 5 foot size indicates 
the vigor and health of our stock. 
Our grafted trees are of the Nanking, Meiling, and 
Kuling varieties. The performance of grafted trees 
has not been fully tested and we guarantee these only 
to the extent of replacing them once at half price if 
there is a failure of the graft union. However, by using 
only pure Chinese chestnut root stocks we believe 
failure of the graft union will be very infrequent. Our 
supply of grafted trees is very limited. 
All nursery stock is State inspected and certified. 
Terms and Conditions 
We ship by Parcel Post or Railway Express, which- 
ever is the cheaper. We do not assume liability for 
delays in transit, and our liability ends upon delivery 
in good order to the carrier. 
Terms are cash with order, unless to known or 
approved credit rating. 
All quotations are made subject to stocks being 
sold. We assume no liability for failure to fill orders 
due to injury to nuts or nursery stock from causes 
beyond our control, and we give no wafranty, express 
or implied, as to description, productiveness, or any 
other matter, of any nursery stock or seeds we sell. 
