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NEWS BULLETIN AND P air ais | 
SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY, FEBRUARY 1950 
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THESE PRICES GOOD UNTIL JUNE Ist, 1950 


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This price list cancels all previous lists and will be cancelled June 1st, 1950. 
All trees are grafted unless otherwise specified. Will be shipped by express, bare 
root and properly cut back unless some other arrangement is agreed upon. 
Prices F.0.B. Railway Express office, Purcellville, Va. Please be sure to give cor- 
rect shipping address. We do hate to send a tree to the wrong place. It is surprising 
how many people give incorrect address. Do check it. 
Terms: Cash with order. 
For parcel post shipments add 10% to order. We strongly recommend express. 
Trees will have to be cut back to 3 foot length to meet postal regulations. 
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 you are short of space, two trees two feet apart make one big top. 
WAXED TRUNKS ‘ee 
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 
So far as we know, everything that we sell except mulberry and broadview walnut 
has better chance of yielding if it has a partner of same species and different variety 
to pollenate the blossoms — except that wild trees nearby may serve your black walnut, 
shagbark, and hybrid hickory. 
EARLY PLANTING AND FALL PLANTING 
Early planting is desirable and be sure that there are no air pockets beneath the 
roots and that the earth makes close contact with the roots. That lets absorption 
(which is life for trees) begin. FALL PLANTING is O.K. south of line, New York- 
Pittsburgh-Columbus, O.,-Indianapolis, Ind., and St. Louis, Mo. 
Do not telephone Swarthmore about trees. Do not call there about trees. It is a 
strictly mail order office. The trees are far away on the Blue Ridge mountains of Vir- 
ginia. Your letters will receive prompt attention, so will your orders, but remember 
that a big rain may wet our clay soil and hold us up for 3 or 4 more days after the rain 
at any time. Order early. Give us all the time you can. 
Address And Make Checks Payable To 
SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY, SWARTHMORE, PA. 
