. Pleasant Valley Nurseries : 1900 [catalog]. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit New Jersey Catalogs; Trees New Jersey Catalogs. 2 Arthur J. Collins, Moorestown, New Jersey. following season. The next year they gave great promise of producing a full crop. Unfortunatelv during the spring a nre from an adjacent wood burned over our tract, ind ruined all of the erafted clumps m its course, thus delaying our progress. We thought for a time that the fire had ruined our tract, but new suckers started up around the stumps ; these in turn were grafted, and, although delaveH two years, the tract
. Pleasant Valley Nurseries : 1900 [catalog]. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit New Jersey Catalogs; Trees New Jersey Catalogs. 2 Arthur J. Collins, Moorestown, New Jersey. following season. The next year they gave great promise of producing a full crop. Unfortunatelv during the spring a nre from an adjacent wood burned over our tract, ind ruined all of the erafted clumps m its course, thus delaying our progress. We thought for a time that the fire had ruined our tract, but new suckers started up around the stumps ; these in turn were grafted, and, although delaveH two years, the tract now gives promise of yielding large returns. & ueidyea In the Winter Of 1898 we purchased several acres of raw land adjoining our tract, and m the spring planted it with seedling Chestnut trees, 12x15 feet apart, with the view of grafting same with the leading varieties of Chest- nuts. Twelve by 15 feet may seem rather close to some, but as the improved Japanese varieties are very precocious, we expect to gather several bushels of nuts before the trees will be injured by crowding, at which time a number of the trees will be removed. THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF CHESTNUTS. When the culinary uses of the Chestnut are more generally appreciated in this country, as they are in Europe, the demand for Chestnuts of large size will be immense. European cooks know how to use them in a number oFways. Mr. Griffen, U. S. Commercial Agent, Limoges, France, in Advance Sheets of Consular Re- ports on Nuts as Food in Foreign Countries,Oct 17, 1898, says that in France "frorn the Bay of Biscay to Switzerland, there are large plantations, and al- most forests, of Chestnut ; The nuts 44are broad, large,and resemble the American horse chest- nut or buckeye, and are extensively eaten by hu- man beings and animals.'' ..' 'The poor people, dur- ing the fall and winter, of- ten make two meals dailv from Chestnuts. The or- dinary way of cooking th em is to remove the out- side shells, blanc
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