. Price list, fall 1900 : everything for the fruit grower. Nursery stock, New Jersey, Catalogs; Fruit, New Jersey, Catalogs; Trees, New Jersey, Catalogs. Moorestown, N. J. 7 JAPANESE CHESTNUTS, continued Biddle. Buv medium size, spines long and abundant ; nuts large, broader than long, light brown. '2 to 5 in a bur. quality fair: tree regular, , vigorous; bark light. Ripens September 25 to October 1. Colonel Martin. Usuallj'has verj'large nuts to the bur. but frequently 5. Tree a vigorous grower, open, spreading, verj' prolific and pro- ductive ; a beautiful nut. Ripens Sept.
. Price list, fall 1900 : everything for the fruit grower. Nursery stock, New Jersey, Catalogs; Fruit, New Jersey, Catalogs; Trees, New Jersey, Catalogs. Moorestown, N. J. 7 JAPANESE CHESTNUTS, continued Biddle. Buv medium size, spines long and abundant ; nuts large, broader than long, light brown. '2 to 5 in a bur. quality fair: tree regular, , vigorous; bark light. Ripens September 25 to October 1. Colonel Martin. Usuallj'has verj'large nuts to the bur. but frequently 5. Tree a vigorous grower, open, spreading, verj' prolific and pro- ductive ; a beautiful nut. Ripens Sept. 20 to 25. Dr. Black. Bur large, spines medium, abun- dant ; nuts large, 3 to 7 in a bur, dark brown ; very early and vevy productive. Ripens Septem- ber 8 to 15. Early Reliance. Early ; tree of low, dwarf, spreading habit, beginning to bear immediately ; 1-year grafts are frequently loaded ; nuts large, 4 inches in circumference, and having the valu- able characteristic of running 3 to 5 nuts in the bur. Tree enormously productive, a 10-foot tree yielding 3 to 0 quarts ; nuts smooth, bright, uni- form, attractive. Ripens September 18 to 20. Felton. Bixr small, spines thinly scattered over a thick husk ; nut medium, smaller than Alpha, slightly pointed, dark bi-own, ridged, with slight pul)escence at tip, qualitj' good; tree close, round-headed,fairly pro- lific. Ripens September 20 to 30. Kerr. Not so large as Colonel Martin, but averages larger than Dr. Black. Nut dai-k brown, never nioi-e than ,'! nuts to the bur. which has much shorter spines and is sometimes half l)ald : quality good. Tree is a fine grower and bears heavily Ripe Septem-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Collins, Arthur J; Pleasant Valley Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Moorestown, N.
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