. Fall 1899 : Parrys' Pomona Nurseries. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 10 PARRYS' POMONA NURSERIES, PARRY, NEW JERSEY. JAPAN MAMMOTH CHESTNUT TREE, four years old, at Pomona Nurseries producing: four quarts of mammoth, nuts. NUT CULTURE, continued. 4 feet high, trees are heavily laden with nuts of enor- mous size, measuring 4 to 6 inches around and running 3 to 7 in a bur. Their early bearing and great produc- tiveness of such enormous nuts are the wonder and admiration of all w
. Fall 1899 : Parrys' Pomona Nurseries. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 10 PARRYS' POMONA NURSERIES, PARRY, NEW JERSEY. JAPAN MAMMOTH CHESTNUT TREE, four years old, at Pomona Nurseries producing: four quarts of mammoth, nuts. NUT CULTURE, continued. 4 feet high, trees are heavily laden with nuts of enor- mous size, measuring 4 to 6 inches around and running 3 to 7 in a bur. Their early bearing and great produc- tiveness of such enormous nuts are the wonder and admiration of all who see them. The value of Chestnuts and profits of their cul- ture DEPEND VERY MUCH ON THEIR EARLY RIPENING, aS large Chestnuts marketed in September and early October will bring $10 to $15 per bushel, while late in October and November the price will drop to $6 or $8 per bushel. Our Japan Mammoth has the fortunate feature of maturing very early, without the aid of frost to open the burs, and is hardy in northern New York. Chestnut Culture. Extracts from a paper read before the Gloucester County Fai'mers'* Institute, November 19, 1897, by Charles Parry, of Parry, Burlington Co., N. J., follow: "There are annually imported into the United States from southern Europe many thousand pounds of Chestnuts. Every pound of these Chestnuts could and should be grown at home. There are very few farm products that will yield so large a return for the capital and labor employed as Chestnuts. And we should not only supply our own markets, but should export enough to supply England, Germany and north- ern Europe. It must be because farmers do not like to make money easily! They will spend time, labor and money growing melons, that must be picked and marketed every day, and sometimes twice a day, to prevent spoiling, and then, if they are not sold promptly, will spoil anyway. They especially avoid Chest- nuts, a crop that has none of these disad- vantages, and will pay many times better; a
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