Archive image from page 49 of Descriptive catalogue of the Reading. Descriptive catalogue of the Reading Nursery descriptivecatal1876read Year: 1876 46 SUPPLEMENT TO CATALOGUE OF READING NURSERY, J. Yf. MANNING, PROp'r. CHESTNUT BLOSSOM AND LEAVES. (Castanea Americntius.) ' This our common native chestnut is one of the glories of the rocky hillsides and pastures of New England, and well known throughout the Northern States. It is a tree of great size, grand character and rapid growth ; in form, when m iture, it resembles the White Oak, but assumes its grand air much younger.' It is possibl
Archive image from page 49 of Descriptive catalogue of the Reading. Descriptive catalogue of the Reading Nursery descriptivecatal1876read Year: 1876 46 SUPPLEMENT TO CATALOGUE OF READING NURSERY, J. Yf. MANNING, PROp'r. CHESTNUT BLOSSOM AND LEAVES. (Castanea Americntius.) ' This our common native chestnut is one of the glories of the rocky hillsides and pastures of New England, and well known throughout the Northern States. It is a tree of great size, grand character and rapid growth ; in form, when m iture, it resembles the White Oak, but assumes its grand air much younger.' It is possible for it to grow to a height of 50 feet in 20 years, when grown in com- pany with other trees so its side branches do not gain much vigor. Few trees take on such noble proportions from youth to old age, when growing in ample space on its peculiar soil. It delights in a dry, gravelly and rocky, granite soil or rocky loom. The trans- planting of the chestnut is not so successful with large trees. In the case of smaller trees we have been quite fortunate, not losing 10 per cent. See page 10.
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