. Descriptive catalogue of ornamental trees, plants, vines, fruits, Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs. 38 SAmuEL C. /AooN's Descriptive H'umfio, continued. one of the best large chestnuts ever introduced in this country. Its points of superior merit are: 1st. The tree is very hardy and vigorous, never having been injured in the least during any of the severe winters of the past thirty years by temper- atures of from 20° to 30° below zero. 3nd. It is enormously
. Descriptive catalogue of ornamental trees, plants, vines, fruits, Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs. 38 SAmuEL C. /AooN's Descriptive H'umfio, continued. one of the best large chestnuts ever introduced in this country. Its points of superior merit are: 1st. The tree is very hardy and vigorous, never having been injured in the least during any of the severe winters of the past thirty years by temper- atures of from 20° to 30° below zero. 3nd. It is enormously productive; the original tree bears from one to three bushels of nuts an- nually. The average yield for five consecutive years was 62 quarts per tear. The lai'gest crop was over 100 quarts in 1890. 3rd. Young ti'ees bear early, commencing in from two to five years after grafting, and become pi'ofitable as soon as Baldwin or Smith's Cider apples. 4th. The nuts are all that can be desired in siz e, color and appearance, combining these important qualities so essential in a market fruit better than any other variety that we know of. Forty NUTS MAKE ONE QUART of the Selected specimens, such as shown in accompanying cut, or about 60 nuts of average size will make a good market quart. 5th. The quality of the nuts is as good as any large chestnut. In this, as in all very large chest- nuts, there is a little astringency in the skin that surrounds the kernel, but when boiled or I'oasted and this skin is removed, they are scarcely dis- tinguishable from the best small sweet chestnuts. 6th. They ripen early, usually before frost, and command the highest price of the mai'ket and of the season. Thej^ generally sell in Philadelphia at from 25 to 40 cents per quart. 7th. The burs are smaller and lighter in pro- portion to the size of the nuts thej' contain than almost any other variety; a vei'y important fea- ture when a tree is bearing large crops—even when loaded with one hundred quart
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