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Packet. All right for southern Maine, New Hampshire and southern Wisconsin and 
down to southern North Carolina and west to the Mississippi. To lessen risk, we ship 
blueberry bushes only in the spring. 
1 SUPERTRANS APPLE. I have dn apple that no other nuresry known to us 
offers. It is of Russian origin, much like the yellow transparent in every re- 
spect, except that the fiavor is milder and better for eating out of hand, and the apple 
is not so hard. Therefore, a home variety. Every family needs one or two. 
1 HONEY LOCUST. Eventually the most important thing I ever did may be the 
introduction of the honey locust as a forage crop. The way these trees cluster 
themselves with long pods of beans is very suggestive of a great new forage crop and 
possibly also a commercial sugar Crop. There is a record from an Alabama experiment 
station of a yield of 250 pounds of pods from a nine year old tree. Feeding value of 
crop of an acre, 40 ft. apart, reported equal to 100 bushels of oats and the same land 
also produced 2% tons lespedesa hay. 
The small beans are embedded in big fat sugary pods that hang in masses and 
ripen on test trees of both varieties that we offer. They have proved themselves in the 
Philadelphia climate. If you have a cow let her have a little fun. She likes candy as 
well as any girl. If you keep livestock in the pasture where these trees grow you will 
have to get up early in the morning if you expect to find any beans on the ground. They 
will have been eaten at dawn by the quadrupeds. Varieties: Calhoun and Millwood. 
Millwood is the heavier bearer. The pods have been analyzed and found to contain 30% 
of sugar. That is the reason they are devoured so greedily. They drop their pods for 
several weeks to the enrichment of fall pastures. They begin to bear young AND THE 
TREES ARE THORNLESS. On Dec. 12, 1947, a Pennsylvania farmer fed his sheep by- 
shaking the honey locust branches with a pole. Said it saved short feet and long feed. 
Zone V and south. 
Plant 35 to 50 feet apart in pastures. You will get just as much grass or more and 
also a ton or two of grain equivalent per acre. The open top of their feathery foliage 
lets light through to the grass. Tennessee experiment station reports that such open 
shading INCREASED GRASS YIELD. That sounds a little like a miracle, but there’s a 
reason. 
The tree has sprawling habits and the trees you buy may look crooked, but I have 
seen them straighten and the promise of harvests is excellent. 
OAKS. We have a fine lot. Ask for our special tree list. I am astonished at 
7 the speed of their growth. 
SPECIAL TREE LIST (on request) describing small lots and larger size trees. 
1 Shagbarks, black walnuts, Chinese chestnuts, grafted and seedlings, pecans, 
Japanese chestnuts, a few butternuts, one shellbark and several species of oaks, fine 
trees, transplanted, a good assortment. And don’t forget, we have dogwood. See 
Special Tree List. 
OUR TREES ARE FOR THE NORTH 
Persimmon seed from Northern Missouri and Kansas are grafted with cions of 
persimmons that have done well in Iowa and Nebraska. Some of our Chinese persim- 
mon varieties were imported personally from the extreme northern range of Chinese 
persimmons. 
The climates of Peiping, China, and Omaha, Nebraska, are almost identical as to 
average temperatures for July and average temperatures for January. 
Our Chinese persimmons and our chestnuts came from the vicinity of Peiping, 
some of the persimmons from further west. 
This should not, however, be taken as a statement that our Chinese persimmons 
will thrive in Omaha, Nebraska, I doubt it. There may be quirks in the climate, such 
"as spring thaws or warm November days followed by freezes that make a difference. 
-It should be clearly understood that the Chinese persimmon trees are grown in a cli- 
mate almost like that of Philadelphia but somewhat more severe, and they are thriving 
in southeastern Pennsylvania with reports of success from 39 degrees north in change- 
able Indiana, and that any who plant are experimenting. They bear early. 
The chestnuts are doing well in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Oklahoma, Here 
and these somebody gets them in-a frost pocket and they die, while a man on higher 
ground 200 miles farther north has them thriving. : 



