




To My Customers and Friends of 1948 
Greetings: 

Chestnut growing is rapidly coming to the 
front, not only as a hobby but also as a profit- 
able commercial crop. Before the war millions 
of pounds of chestnuts were imported into this 
country each year from southern Europe. 
These nuts should and could be grown at 
home. Trees come into bearing as soon as apple 
trees, and are a most promising venture for the 
farmer. These trees will live and bear profitable 
crops for future generations. 
Chestnut trees make good shade, and are 
beautiful and attractive as ornamental speci- 
mens. Instead of merely getting a job of raking 
and burning a crop of leaves each fall from 
other trees, why not plant a few chestnut trees 
and put away a supply of nuts for the family. 
Or, plant a few trees.in a corner of a field and 
build a fence around them, to furnish food for 
the squirrels and other wild life. They will 
enjoy it and you will help to make game more 
plentiful. ; 
Chestnuts come into bearing very young. 
I have trees in my nursery bearing 2 to 6 burrs 
at 3 years from planting the seed. At 10 years 
I have trees which yielded 10 quarts of nuts. 
Chestnuts bear annually. They bloom about 
the middle of June and so are not injured by 
frost. They require very little pruning, no 
spraying, no ladder climbing. They ripen from 
mid-September to October. They fall from the 
burrs when ripe, as the burrs open before frost, 
and what a treat to roast a few on the stove or 
cook in water, and eat in the cool fall evenings. 


