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Mounts W eather, Val. 9717260 44.9" 57.1 66.0 70:0 263.2 SOL Se ol. 0m l 
Washinetons. DSC: sibel. 64,2 27207 16 Saab Ose epO OmmaeeG 
Harrishbure obama 368 6 507 S617) V703I0 74.59 72149 40 ee 
New York City, No Yo. (314.948:5" 59.4 69.0 074.5" 72.858 65b.9) bb 296.5 
Hartford, Conn. 100° 46:7" (57.5 “67:1 271.6 GS ee G1 Tele 
Albanyan SY cet ook 97. 4657 59.2" 68:4" "72.3 V 10omO2-D aDU-aneeoasD 
Pittsburgns ba: ee ee 750, 51:07 62.6" 71.1. T1268 72:56 66.1. od. Oz 
Columbus; Ohi6w 22.2 ee 1144 L162 50 7 0 15.2 2 O62 er ae 
Indianapolis; and. fee 120 524° 63:35 .72.3 “T6128 77s 9 266.0 ae 
MVAnSVille; winds spun 38455 (bb1 67.0 - 75.0 F7S.6) sss 6 bo ae 
Madison; Wiss 0. pace a. 860%"45.6> 957.6) 67.5 1272.09 69.8 62.30. 0ee Oo 
Des Moines, Iowa ... 805" 50.6" 61.1” 70.27 (4:0 7310 9 Gb ees omnes 
Omaha. Nebr sn 1034° 50:5 62:60 71:6 76-5 44 60.64 oe ore 
sopeka,. Kane Aas S96. 53:7 65.0 7738.5 9277. 6le 10.0 O6.5on Oo eco 
* Mount Weather is on top of the Blue Ridge near our Nursery. Sunny Ridge 
Nursery is on the slope of the mountain, elevation 700-1000 feet. According to the 
rules of the meteorologists it should be between 1% and three degrees warmer 
than Mount Weather. Therefore my total above 50° is probably about 73 at the top 
and 84 at the bottom. 
ripened wood. Potash makes hardiness, 
but a complete fertilizer, 4% nitrogen, 
12% phosphorus, 4% potash (4-12-4) is 
good. And don’t let grass crowd the 
young tree for the first three years of 
its life. Grass is the best tree killer 
known except fire and goats. If you are 
on the northern edge of Chestnut ter- 
ritory beware of manure or other or- 
ganic nitrogen. It may make late 
growth and winter kill. Use nitrate 
of soda and other inorganic nitrates. 
Plant Chestnuts 
The Chinese Chestnut is a splendid 
dooryard tree. It is such fun to pick 
up the nuts. Why not plant several 
hundred trees for commercial Chestnut 
growing? I have sold several large 
orders for that purpose. In one case 
the purchaser expects to let the pigs 
harvest the crop. In this respect he 
will be duplicating the centuries-old 
experience of southern France, Spain, 
and Italy, where Chestnut orchards 
cover whole mountainsides and have 
supported a rather dense population 
for more than a thousand years. In 
these European areas the main crop 
has been picked up for human food 
and to serve as grain food for horses, 
cows, sheep and goats. 
Some of the larger Japanese varie- 
ties, of which there are many, promise 
to give more grain food per acre than 
can be depended upon from corn. The 
burrs open, the nuts fall out, and the 
pigs will do the harvesting, provided 
we don’t eat the nuts ourselves. 
The Northern Pecan 
If you want to make your place a 
distinguished landmark, plant two bal- 
anced Pecan trees of the same variety 
and give them a chance. I have seen 
these trees towering thirty feet above 
the tops of the oak forests in Indiana. 
I have seen them six feet in diameter, 
with more than 100 feet spread. They 
are truly lordly trees, and will bear 
nuts for centuries. One particular tree 
in southern Illinois was full of nuts 
when the first white man saw it in 1817. 
It is reported that it only missed three 
crops in the next 97 years and was 
still going strong. Ordinarily Pecan 
trees, like most apple trees, alternate 
their heavy and. light crops. 
Many think of the Pecan as a south- 
ern tree because trees producing fine 
nuts were propagated in the South and 
the industry started in the Cotton Belt. 
But the Pecan tree grows wild and 
ripens its nuts in southeastern Iowa, 
in southwestern Ohio, and thence down- 
stream to the Gulf of Mexico. George 
‘Washington called them “Illinois nuts” 
because the ones he had came from 
Illinois. He is said to have been very 
fond of them, often carried them in 
