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SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY Spring, 1953. 
SWARTHMORE, PENNSYLVANIA, 
ADD GRAFTED CHINESE CHESTNUTS TO YOUR LINE 
No one in America is propagating grafted Chinese Chestnuts in quantity. 
Many are selling seedlings of varying quality at very high pricos. 
Why don't you stock up with my grafted trees while thoy are still small 
enough for me to move them and you can sell at once and also let some of 
them stand for a seasone Those trees retail now for $3.75 to $4.50 and 
sometimes morés 
They were root pruned in the Fall of 1951, trimmed to a switch and cut 
off at 4 feet. They have nice heads now and hundreds of them bore nuts last 
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 thom. I have found many retail customers 
willing to pay $1.50 extra for a bearing tree: standard price $4.00 plus 
$1506 
We can offer you these 485 foot Chinese Chestnut trees, grafted to the 
best varieties, namely Nanking, Abundance and Connecticut Yankee, also a few 
Kuling and Meilinge The Nanking is the first recommendation of the Ue S. 
De Ae, and the Abundance and Connecticut Yankee have been widely proved in 
northern arease The nuts they have already produced show that they are pre- 
cocious and prolific bearers. They will bring you friends. The Connecticut 
Yankee stood 34° below zero in Massachusetts and I got my start of Abundance 
from Canadae 
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Trees are in Loudoun County, Virginia. 
All trees f.owbe Purcellville, Virginia - on Washington and Old Dominion 
Railway. 
Packing at cost. 
Je Russell Smith, Owner, 
Sunny Ridge Nursery, 
Swarthmore, Pa. 
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