. Parrys' Pomona Nurseries : fall, 1897. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants Ornamental Catalogs. From RURAL NEW YORKER : NOTES FROM AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, NUTS, GRAPES AND VEGETABLES. One feature of the American Institute Fair that attracted much attention was the display of nuts made by Parrys' Pomona Nurseries, Parry, N. J. It comprised eighteen varieties of chestnuts, French, American Black, Persian, English, Madeira and Japan walnuts, hickory nuts, pecans, filberts and butternuts. It showed the adv
. Parrys' Pomona Nurseries : fall, 1897. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants Ornamental Catalogs. From RURAL NEW YORKER : NOTES FROM AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, NUTS, GRAPES AND VEGETABLES. One feature of the American Institute Fair that attracted much attention was the display of nuts made by Parrys' Pomona Nurseries, Parry, N. J. It comprised eighteen varieties of chestnuts, French, American Black, Persian, English, Madeira and Japan walnuts, hickory nuts, pecans, filberts and butternuts. It showed the advance that has been made in nut grow- ing, and the interest manifested by visitors in the exhibit sh wed that the public are anxious to learn about the subject. The size of several of the varieties of chestnuts was a revelation to many. The quality of the nuts was left to the imagination, as 4* hands off " was the injunc- tion. Yet some had sadly depleted the collection, the superintendent saying that visitors would steal them in spite of everything. For which display we were awarded fi The Medal of Excellence," also a special Diploma for a highly meritorious exhibit of improved edible nuts, NUT CULTURE. An extract from an article read before N. J. State Horticultural Society by Charles Parry : "We are a shiftless people. Chestnuts pay better than wheat and with less labor and risk; but, as a rule, when those nature grows for the squirrels give out we send our good gold abroad for the produce of Italian soil and let our own good ground go bare. At the present prices of tbese nuts there is no more inviting field in all horticulture than the growing of chestnuts. At this time, when the pricfs of many farm products are verging on the cost of production, and some going far below it, chestnuts alone not only yield a large profit to the grower, but some- times make returns that seem fabulous. This, too, with large tracts of land, suitable for growing this crop, to be ha
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