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5 BLACK WALNUT. These are nuts that keep their flavor in cooking. The 
black walnut is a majestic and useful tree. The Ohio is unusually symmetrical 
and beautiful. ”Ohio, Thomas and Elmer Myers, all equally good, but Myers, a fine new 
one, froze at Ithaca, N. Y. #O.K. further south. 
How about a row of them down your lane. Our 6-7 ft. Thomas are extra heavy, 
very fine. Will bear in a hurry. 
Pittston, N. J., 7/19/43. ‘“‘What surprises me most of all is the fact that I have 
walnuts on 3 Thomas. They were 6 foot trees when planted in the spring of 1941.’ The 
variety is precocious and productive. 
Seedlings of the Thomas variety are unusually vigorous and often resemble the 
Thomas parent in every way. I have some that were pollenated by Ohio and other good 
varieties. These are the best seedlings in America for quality nuts. a 
-NEW SHAGBARKS, THINNER SHELLS, BIG KERNELS, COMPLETE HALVES 
6 Perhaps you remember the long scales of bark on a tree that some called shell- 
bark and others called shagbark or scaly bark (Carya ovata to be exact). You 
picked up the nuts with delight. 
They were pretty, the flavor delicious, and you had difficulty in getting the kernels. 
Well, that’s over. Enthusiastic members of the Northern Nut Growers Association have 
searched the woods from Canada to Iowa and Carolina these last 30 years and found 
the master trees. I am testing about 50 varieties. The shagbarks we sell will give you 
most of their kernels in halves. These are genius trees. 
A sure thing for the north. Don’t miss this beautiful tree, unquestionably hardy 
and with nuts of unrivalled fiavor. 
If you fertilize the trees you will be surprised at the speed with which the shag- 
barks grow. I’ve seen them make 38 feet in a season. . There is little danger of hurt by 
over feeding. We have six varieties but only a few trees of each; suggest let us select 
for you unless you are a specialist. Give latitude and altitude. 
: 7 HYBRID HICKORIES. The Fairbanks hybrid is one of the fastest growing 
and surest bearers of all the hickory family. Stratford is also early and heavy 
bearer. Shagbark should pollenate both. Beginners should try these, and chestnuts. 
They bear so soon that they are most encouraging. Sold out .on shagbarks. Write in 
Fall. 
PECANS hardy, beautiful. Every farm house with pecan climate should have 
8 some. Good for a couple of centuries. Sold out. Write in Fall. 
9 HICCAN. Pecan x Shagbark hybrid. Fast growers. Ask us next Fall. 
10 FILBERTS—Ffor a long while I turned up my nose at filberts but I had a few 
trees. At last the handsome way they grow won my attention. Picking up 
the nuts won my affection. Eating them confirmed it, and now I’m an enthusiast start- 
ing a test orchard and selling the proved standard varieties. Try some. They are inti- 
mate yard trees and very good screens. 
Barcelona is the heavy bearer and several others are pollenators. You must have 
both. Please order Barcelona and pollenator. One pollenator to half a dozen Barce- 
lonas is all right. Plant six feet apart for a screen, fifteen to twenty feet apart in the 
open. 
HAZEL NUT. The new Winkler; native of Iowa; hardy as jack rabbit; self- 
11 pollenating; bears in 2 years; large nuts. Rare. We have only a few trees. 
AMERICAN PERSIMMONS. These are delicious fruits but our stock is ex- 
12 hausted. Try us next Fall. 
CHINESE PERSIMMONS. One of the excitements of the autumn at Sunny 
i) Ridge Nursery has been Chinese persimmons. Thirty varieties have produced 
fruit and some trees had all they could possibly hold. In growth habit they resemble 
pears. Grafted Trees. Fruits 21%4 to 3 inches in diameter. They are very early bearers 
as well as fruitful and doubly beautiful. A high class lawn ornament. Anyone who 
plants these should follow our booklet and regard himself as experimenting. ; 
HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY. The arrival of this new crop is the horticultural 
1 sensation of the decade. I have 3 varieties, They will give youa succession of 
berries for 5 or 6 weeks beginning in June in the climate of central New Jersey and later 
- as one goes north. Be sure to read our blueberry leaflet and try the Blueberry Kings 
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