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the Boston area. Varieties were Connecticut Yankee and seedlings.” 
From: Washington, D. C. Y gestation 18, 1946. 
“In the fall of 1945 I purchased twelve Chinese chestnut trees from your nursery 
* * *, To my utter amazement, these trees now bear little chestnuts. Needless to say, 
Iam delighted. Many thanks for the excellent stock that you sent.” 
CHINESE CHESTNUTS TO THE FORE. Chestnuts are certainly the most pro- 
ductive of all nut trees. They are also the most precocious. Each of the other nut 
trees has its especial merits but in these two the chestnuts lead. What about the qual- 
ity of Chinese Chestnuts? Well, the very conservative Mr. C. A. Reed, U. S. Dept. of 
Agriculture, has said this: 
“The best of the Chinese chestnuts are without peers among known Chestnuts from 
any part of the world.” 
And now the Department has released its latest variety, the Nanking; en of par- 
ent tree planted in 1936, bore 2.3 Ibs., 1943; 34.4 lbs. in '44; 37.8 Ibs. in ’45; 1.0 Ib. in 
°46 (big freeze) and 87.7 lbs. in 1947; total 163.2 lbs. in 5 years. Value at 40¢ per lb., 
$65.28. Don’t you want trees like this? I can sell you some. My neighbor planted 150 
of them. Wish I had a field full of them. 
We also have another new variety — Abundance; highly praised from southern 
Ontario to Pennsylvania and Oregon, and the old standards, Zimmerman and Connecti- 
cut Yankee. Let us pick the varieties for you. 
CHINESE CHESTNUT TREES THAT HAVE RIPENED NUTS 
If you are in a hurry for nuts you can get chestnut trees that already have ripened 
some nuts. A few chestnut trees, 4-5 feet and larger, have matured nuts in our nursery. 
These trees have been carefully marked... If you want some of these proven trees.add 
$1.50 to the list price. All are grafted trees. Do not ask by variety. Just say 4-5 or 
5-6 ft. proven tree. 
CONARD — The Blizzard Strain 
We have two varieties, Conard and Conard 2, propagated from trees that grow 
in Iowa and lived through the Armistice Day storm of 1940 that killed many 
apples in that locality. Recommended for cold locations. Get one of each and a select- 
ed seedling to pollenate. If they do well try standard varieties. 
HARDY SEEDLINGS 
The fact that a tree is grafted sometimes causes a delay in passage of sap to roots 
for winter storage. This excess moisture supply above the graft of a tree may, in ex- 
treme locations, cause an early autumn freeze to kill the tree above the graft. There- 
fore, if you are on the northern edge of chestnut country in Zone II or III of Rehders 
map p. 7 of our booklet, “Nut Trees for Cold Climates’, I suggest that you begin with 
our seedlings. We have a few seedlings of unusual ancestry, direct from a Chinese 
neighborhood where seedling seed have been selected generation after generation. 
STRAIGHT LINE SEEDLINGS we callthem. This makes them much more reliable than 
chance seedlings. A few of this lot bore when 18 months old. 
CUTTING BACK 
Nut trees have prodigious roots — roots that are long and not fibrous. We have to 
cut away some of this long root before we send your trees. To plant a tree with only 
part of its roots and all of its top is to invite early death. I know for I have done it. 
Therefore, we cut the tops back to establish balance and to help insure the success of, 
transplanting. Therefore, you need not expect the trees to be very handsome:on arriv- 
al, but wait until growth begins and then admire, and when the nuts begin you will 
rejoice. If short of space, two trees two feet apart make one big top. 
WAXED TRUNKS 
We wax the trunk with a special and expensive wax, to reduce evaporation. The 
price of this unguent has jumped fabulously but we keep on using it. We think it in- 
creases the chance of survival and we want the trees you buy from us to grow. We 
can’t keep on without your repeat orders and the orders from your friends who hear of 
your success 
POLLENATION aan ’ 
So far as we know, everything that we sell except mulberry and hazel nut has bet- 
ter chance of yielding if it has a partner of same species and different variety to pol- 
lenate the blossoms — except that wild trees nearby may serve your. black walnut or 
shagbark. 
