Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . hard class at the present time. Trees are usuallypropagated by raising seedlings from choice nuts. Ibelieve that more of these trees should be planted. Chestnut.—Now we come to a species of nutwhich has distinct commercial possibilities for theaverage American. ]\Ir. Joseph L. Lovett, of Pennsyl-vania, now has about fifty acres on his own farmplanted to improved chestnuts, — mostly Paragons. ]Mr. Lovett plows his orchard each spring and thengives the soil regular cultivation until Sept
Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . hard class at the present time. Trees are usuallypropagated by raising seedlings from choice nuts. Ibelieve that more of these trees should be planted. Chestnut.—Now we come to a species of nutwhich has distinct commercial possibilities for theaverage American. ]\Ir. Joseph L. Lovett, of Pennsyl-vania, now has about fifty acres on his own farmplanted to improved chestnuts, — mostly Paragons. ]Mr. Lovett plows his orchard each spring and thengives the soil regular cultivation until Septemberfirst. No autumn or winter cover crop is planted,because such a growth would interfere with the (115) 116 ORCHARD BOOK finding of the nuts when they fall on the ground. Thetrees are set about thirty feet apart each way; theybegin to bear when quite young, and are not prunedor sprayed — unless it is to trim up an occasionalbranch that droops too near the ground. The redspider leaves its mark on the foliage every season,but jVIr. lyovett says that he pays no attention to thisinsect CLUSTER OF PARAGON CHESTNUT BURS The weevil has found its way into the Lovettgroves. But not in foixe. There are no overlookednuts, no stumps, no underbrush, in which they canbreed; the soil is frequently cultivated, all the nutsare picked up each season, and, consequently, theweevil has not proved to be a serious pest on this farm. When harvesting the nuts, they are never picked,knocked or shaken off. Mr. Lovett waits until JackFrost loosens the crop. NUT TREES 117 ^Plow a chestnut orchard deeply^ says You should endeavor, in every way pos-sible, to encourage a large, deep-growing root is very important. Some nut-growers are taking chestnut stump land,and are grafting Paragons, etc., on the sprouts whichcome from stumps. But INIr. Lovett says that thismethod has many objections. Whip grafting is the usual method of propagation,but the union is not always
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