MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FROM U.S. WEATHER BUREAU 
CLIMATIC SUMMARY OF U S. 
Total 
Alti- above 
tude April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. 50° 
NTHACH IN ey sabes ee cteas G28 5542.8 56.17 6b:807 0.4, 007.9 > 61.7 15002726 
bewishurew Pa. oss: « 450. 949.4" 59.97 169.0) 43.8 °70.8. 66.49 561.85) 9172 
Mount Weather, Va.*... 1726 44.9 57.1 66.0 70.0 68.2 61.8 51.0 62.3 
Washington DIC. 22, 5 ioe Dol O42 ee 721) vic, on ido. 68.15 00.0) 812h0 
Haprisvury., Fase ts S6Sre 007 mol vie 10.0) 014.0% 8712.1 464.9 64.0 29872 
New york City, oN. Vo... 10140-48599 59.4 69.0 974.5 72.8 65.9) 59.2 96-8 
Hartford, Conn. Hen LOO 8.46179 O12 SLO intel. 05.0 mr Oli OL ieee. 
A TDanveN oY pcan see OF AG Tar 0.2 0b 4 a1 2.0 00) 02.0 D0 2am oor 
Pittspurgosn ci eres 750 D1.Om olor eid, 174.6 ia. 166.1) 74:9) LOZ o 
Columbus, Ohio 2.5.00 V44eeplilerG2:00 11.0 75.28 12-7, 66,9 54a 02 0 
Indianapolis, Ind. -7.... TO0eED 2 Ae 65.5 Melon Os Leeo. © 06.9 spp tam E LLG 
Hvansville, Ind: i... «- S840 bb. 67.0) 215.07 78.6 eis.) 71.6 594 M1543 
MAC ISON WSs ae. etaced cs 860" 45:6 57.6) 267.00 12.0) 669.84 62:3 750.0 19.0 
Des Moines, Iowa .. ROH D068 Ol. 702040 75.0. 65,1) O3-38 Voc 
Omaha Nebre tt co as 1084 50:5 -°62:5 “T16076.5" 74.49 65.8. 54:2) °105:5 
Popeka shane wade ee 896. 53.7 65.0° 73.5. 77.6) 776.0. 68.3% 56.3. 5128/4 
* 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 
