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NEWS BULLETIN AND PRICE LIST 
SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY, FEBRI 
oh SWARTHMORE, PA. 
THESE PRICES GOOD UNTIL JUNE Ist, 1949 
SPECIAL DISCOUNT: CHINESE CHESTNUTS f : 
On orders postmarked on or before Monday, March 21, 1949; . | 
35% off on orders for 100; 30% off on orders for 50 trees; 20% So¥ff¥on all 6 her; 
Chinese Chestnut tree orders. , ae 
tment of Agriculture | 


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1 A NEW HARDY ENGLISH WALNUT. A new era in English Walnuts is be- 
ginning. We have a very hardy new variety. All the older varieties came in 
immigrant pockets from England and France. These two lovely European countries 
have a soft climate. There are parts of England where snow is not seen for 20 years 
at a time, and it is a rarity in parts of France. 
Recently immigrants with seed walnuts in their pockets have come from the colder 
parts of Europe — Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Roumania, south Russia — many seedling 
trees are being tested — and one, theyBroadview, has passed its examination; first by 
surviving 28 degrees below zero in British Columbia and standing up and producing 
good nuts where all others suffered in cold locations east of the Mississippi. 
We are pleased to report that we have a stock of these. Suggest you get two or 
three and one or two’ Franquettes to pollenate. A Franquette is the hardiest of the 
Oregon varieties. Wilz Mayette is its rival. Better parts of Zone V. Experimental in 
IV. 
We have some SEEDLING ENGLISH WALNUTS. Seed from a northern Oregon 
orchard. Well worth trying. 
9) THE BUART NUT, A NEW HYBRID. A new cross, butternut x heartnut 
(Buart), has given us a new tree for the north. Grafted on black walnut 
roots, it is undoubtedly a better tree than either of its parents. The rich, dark foliage 
stays on better. It has been completely hardy in Iowa and near Toronto, Ontario — a 
beautiful, fast-growing, productive tree. The nuts are good. Variety, Helmick. Pol- 
lenate with butternut or Japanese walnut seedling. 
Many people in northern locations ask if this or that will grow with them. If they 
are in cold locations, let them begin with the Buart and Shagbarks, and then go on with 
black walnuts, chestnuts, and English Walnuts. 
Japanese Walnut is a handsome tree, rapid grower, very hard to graft, bears 
heart-shaped nuts in clusters and strings. 
GRAFTED BLIGHT RESISTANT CHINESE CHESTNUT TREES 
3 We have the best varieties now obtainable in the United States. The parent trees 
from which we propagate are the carefully selected best out of many thousands 
of seedling trees.The Chinese Chestnut has passed the experimental stage. They are 
thriving from Massachusetts to southern Iowa and eastern Oklahoma and from northern 
Massachusetts and southern Michigan to northern Florida. It is time to plant. We sell 
grafted trees. Nearly every other nursery is selling seedlings only. There’s a difference. 
See New Jersey Experiment Station bulletin No. 717, New Brunswick, N. J., to see how 
great a difference. No one expects to plant an orchard of seedling apples, or peaches, or 
pears, or cherries, but watch out or some one will be selling you some seedling chest- 
nut trees and letting you think they are grafted. 
Do you want to buy a chestnut tree no taller than you are and which has already 
produced nuts? We have a few trees with that record. 
NUTS IN 1952 OR SOONER 
The chances are about 20 to one in your favor that you will get chestnuts in 1952 
or possibly sooner if you plant in 1949 as follows: Plant one or more of each of two 
varieties of our grafted varieties near to each other (about 30 or 35 feet). Keep grass 
and weeds away from the trees until September first for 2 seasons. Fertilize as our 
booklet directs and you are in for a 2 party or 3 party race depending on whether it is 
you and boys, or you, boys and squirrels. 
Here are passages from unsolicited letters. We have many more. 
From Stoneham, Mass., 3/18/45 
“.. .. a few nuts (about 30) from the trees you sold me in 1942: They went 
thru the winter of 1943 o.k.; temperatures were between 20 and 30 degrees below in 
