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DAS Towa N CE Fall, 1951. 
This is our last recoil price list i 
Sunny Ridge Nursery if Epa 
Swarthmore, Pa. f ne 
LEI A I RID | PIL EI 
The war effort has high-jacked our labor costs, cut our labor s vig eB wy 
to close up the Sunny Ridge Nursery in December 1951. Now is your ¢ SOaPOUSE Of Agriculture 
We cannot guarantee to accept retail orders after October 1, 1951, as wWe~mey—ati 
any time contract to close out our comparatively small stock to some wholesale nure 
serye Trees will bo shipped in November from local express office in Virginia. 
If you live in a place where you prefer spring planting, there is small diffi- 
culty about your keeping the trees over the winter. Here are three ways to do it: 
1. Bury the bundle in the earth completely. If it isntt water soaked it will he 
perfectly safe. That is the way we keep cions. 
2e Bury the ball part of the bundle and let the top stick out, but wrap it well 
with severnl layers of paper. It should come through the winter in perfect order. 
3. Put bundle in a cold cellar ~ absolutely unheated; such a cellar as would keep 
potatoes or apples, Make e small opening in the package and about once a month pour 
in enough water to wet the packing material. 
Many of the trees you may buy from the big nurseries next spring will spend the 
winter with bare roots in a storage house where the air is kept moiste 
GRAFTED CHINESE CHESTNUTS: If you see our nursery in late autwm you find nice 
burrs even on some small trees in the nursery rows. *These are proven trees and are 
earefully marked for you.e $31.50 per troe extra. 
We have Nanking, Kuling, and Meiling, the three varieties reloased by the Us Sa 
Department of Agriculture. We also have the more widely tested Connecticut Yankee 
and Abundance. is fow Twoein-One at $1.50 additional per tree. We select varieties 
on orders. If name the varioties we must charge you moro. Write for these prices. 
SEEDLING TTese CHESTNUTS: 1 havo worked with chestnuts since 1897, As a re- 
sult of travels in China, 1 have mde five largo importations of seed and can now 
offer Ching Chow strain Chinese Chestnut Seedlings. This strain is absolutely blight 
proof, not merely blight resistant. I say blight proof because they have lived at 
least eighteen years in this comtry without any injury from blight, although con- 
stantly exposed to it. More reliable producers than most seedlings. Can be sat rely 
planted as Baik of ot eeb ls business , but not so productive as grafted tress 
GRAFTED TREES: Per tree 
Two-in-One $1.50 extra per tree $3075 
~ CHING CHOW TGS: Per tree 
Blight Proof strain Leco 1250 2200 
*Proven Trees: $1.50 per tree extra. All Id- t. trees are proven trees. 
A few crooked trees: 1/3 off single tree price. These trees will straighten. 
Special price on crooked grafted trees for orchard planting. Will grow good as anya 
If in 7-10 ond 20-12 ft. sizes you want very high headed trees that must be supported 
by stake until established, ask for "pole tree." 
$4 00 $4425 $4075 $7.50 
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BLUEBERRIES: Blueberry King's Packet: Well grown 12-18 inch plants. Equal num- 
ber of three expensive, new, specially selected, highest quality varieties in packet. 
Packet of 6: $6.50 Packet of 12: $12.00 Packet of 36: $30.00 
Blueberry plants are shipped separately from noar Philndelphia. 
SPECIAL: CHING CHOW CHESTNUT SEED: $1.50 per lh. Postpaid, Shipment about October ly 
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