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SWARTHMORE, PENNSYLVANIA f. 
FALL 1953 - SPRING 1954 
ADD GRAFTED CHINESE CHESTNUTS TO YOUR LINE 
Grafted trees bear twice as many nuts as seedlings. 
No one in America is propagating grafted Chinese Chestnuts in quantity. Many 
are selling seedlings of varying quality at very “high ‘prices. eo ; 
Why don*t you stock up with my grafted trees while they are still small enough 
for me to move them. You can sell at once and also let some of them stand for a seae 
son. You will see that we are pricing them lower than we could raise them this year. 
They are of bearing age as is shown by a sprinkling of nuts last year and this 
yeare If you keep them until they are 8 feet, 97% of them will be bearing and you 
can get $5.00 ~ $7.50 for them. I have found many retail customers willing to pay 
$1.50 extra for a bearing tree: standard price $4.00 plus $1.50. 
We can offer you these 4e6 foot Chinese Chestnut trees, grafted to the best 
varieties. The nuts they have already produced show that they are precocious and 
prolific bearers. They will bring you friends. This species was introduced more 
than 40 years ago. The U. Se D. As scattered seedlings far and wide for testing. 
They are now thriving from northern Florida to northern Massachusetts and west be- 
yond the Mississippi. They have lived where whole orchards of apples froze in Iowa. 
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50-500 LYCOS ver eecensvecreccareccsesseveserenvsesovescuce 1.30 per tree 
Trees are in Loudoun County, Virginia. 
All trees f.0.b. Us eas Virginia - on Washington and Old Dominion 
Railway. 
Packing at cost. 
J. Russell Smith, Owner, 
Sunny Ridge Nursery, 
Swarthmore, Pae 
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There will probably be some small lots of varying sizes, and a few 
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