. 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. 3 CHESTNUTS, continued our tract, and ruined all of the grafted clumps in its course, thus delaying our progress. GWe thought for a time that the fire had ruined our tract, but new suckers started u p a r o u n d t h e stumps ; these in turn were grafted, and although delayed two years, the tract now gives promise of yielding large re- turns. In the winter of 1898 we purchased several acres of raw land adjoining our tract, a
. 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. 3 CHESTNUTS, continued our tract, and ruined all of the grafted clumps in its course, thus delaying our progress. GWe thought for a time that the fire had ruined our tract, but new suckers started u p a r o u n d t h e stumps ; these in turn were grafted, and although delayed two years, the tract now gives promise of yielding large re- turns. In the winter of 1898 we purchased several acres of raw land adjoining our tract, and in the spring- planted it witii seedling Chestnut trees, 12 x 15 feet apart, with the view of grafting them with the leading varieties of Chestnuts. 12 x 1,5 feet may seem rather close to some, but as the im- proved 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 Value of Chestnuts "When the culinary uses of the Cliestnut are more generally appreciated in this country, as they are in Eui'ope, the demand for Chestnuts of large size will be immense. European cooks know how to use them in a number of ways. Mr. Griffen, C. S. Commercial Agent. Limoges. France, in "Advance Sheets of ('onsular Reports " on Nuts as Food in Foreign Countries, ()ct(jliei-17. 1898, says that in France "from the Bay of Biscay to Switzerland, there are large plantations, and almost forests, of Chestnut ; The nuts. 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. J. : Arthur J. Collins
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