. Pleasant Valley Nurseries : 1901 [catalog]. Nursery stock New Jersey Moorestown Catalogs; Nut trees Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 2 Arthur J. Collins, Moorestown, New following season. The next year they gave great promise of producing a full crop. Unfortunately during the spring a fire from an adjacent wood burned over our tract, and ruined all of the grafted clumps in its course, thus delaying our progress. We thought for a time that the fire had ruined our tract, but new suckers started up around the stumps ; these in turn were grafted, and, although d
. Pleasant Valley Nurseries : 1901 [catalog]. Nursery stock New Jersey Moorestown Catalogs; Nut trees Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 2 Arthur J. Collins, Moorestown, New following season. The next year they gave great promise of producing a full crop. Unfortunately during the spring a fire from an adjacent wood burned over our tract, and ruined all of the grafted clumps in its course, thus delaying our progress. We thought for a time that the fire had ruined our tract, but new suckers started up around the stumps ; these in turn were grafted, and, although delayed two years, the tract now gives promise of yielding large returns. In the winter Of 1898 we purchased several acres of raw land adjoining our tract, and in the spring planted it with seedling Chestnut trees, 12x15 feet apart, with the view of grafting same with the leading varieties of Chest- nuts. Twelve by 15 feet may seem rather close to some, but as the improved 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 ECONOMIC VALUE OF CHESTNUTS. When the Culinary uses of the Chestnut are more generally appreciated in this country, as they are in Europe, the demand for Chestnuts of large size will be immense. European cooks know how to use them in a number of ways. Mr. Griffen, U. S. Commercial Agent, Limoges, France, in Advance Sheets of Consular Re- ports on Nuts as Food in Foreign Countries,Oct. 17, 1898, says that in France ' 'from the Bay of Biscay to Switzerland, there are large plantations, and al- most forests, of Chestnut ; The nuts ''are broad, large,and resemble the American horse chest- nut or buckeye, and are extensively eaten by hu- man beings and animals.'' . "The poor people, dur- ing the fall and. winter, of- ten make two meals daily from Chestnuts. The or- dinary way of cooking th em is to remove the out- s
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