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SUNNY RIDGE NURSER i 1949 
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NUT TREES. SPECIAL S . Department of Agriculture 
Good for orders with check up to September 12, 1949. After that we can- 
not guarantee to have the trees. saps 

We Have Become Suburban 
Laborers in this locality now go daily to Washington suburbs. Result—hourly 
wage rate we pay is up 240%, supply down, efficiency down. Therefore we must 
discontinuine filling the usual mixed retail orders which have been our delight, 
but make the special offer as shown in the price list on this card. 
Trees will be shipped in fall or early spring according to weather and 
latitude or money refunded. 
You are on our mailing list because you have received our descriptive 
material in past seasons. If you cannot yourself use 10 trees perhaps you can 
join with neighbors and take advantage of these rates which are below our last 
spring retail rates as much as, or more than the following, 10 trees 30%; 25, 
40%; 50, 45%. Please do not ask us to ship anything other than as here offered. 
Each lot contains two varieties in equal numbers, except English Walnut 
(see below), for pollenation. Chance for commercial planting. 
CHINESE CHESTNUTS 
Our grafted Chinese Chestnuts are the best varieties known. Many nurser- 
ies are selling SEEDLING Chinese Chestnuts and not mentioning the fact that 
they are seedlings. There have been several importations of seed from China by 
the U.S.D.A. and I have personally imported five shipments. There is great 
difference in the productivity and blight resistance of different strains of seed- 
ling Chinese Chestnuts. There is a record of a planting of a thousand seedlings, 
none good. 
One strain, the Ching Chow, which I was lucky enough to get, has proved 
itself to be one of the best if not the best of all known seedling chestnuts, a 
planting of these will be profitable but they are not as productive as the graft- 
ed trees which are the twig descendants of the four or five very best trees that 
have yet come to light. 
English (Persian) Walnuts 
At last I have a fair supply of Broadview, the newest thing in English 
Walnuts for the northeastern United States. The parent tree grew near Odessa, 
Russia, and it is much the hardiest variety that has been tested. It has come 
through where others froze. A New Jersey pioneer is getting good crops. It is a 
vigorous tree and a few are bearing in the nursery row. This variety makes it 
seem that the time has come for commercial planting in the East. Suggest seed- 
ling English walnuts for pollenators. Order as many as you wish at $1.00 each. 
We have a few dozen 8-10 foot Broadview—fine for the lane. $3.25 each, per 10. 
Black Walnuts 
We have three varieties Thomas, Ohio and Elmer Myers, all good. Also a 
few big Thomas 8-10 feet. Good for lane or where animals might wish to eat the 
leaves. $3.00 each per 10. 
Please do not ask for variations of these special offers. No guarantee of 
acceptance after September 12, 1949. Cash with order. 
All orders shipped by express F.O.B. Purcellville, Virginia 
August, 1949, 
