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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesga41907newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
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S AN ornamental tree, the chestnut, when given plenty of room, is very handsome, and where the yard or lawn space is ample, a few of these trees will produce a very pleasing and attractive effect. As a forest tree, to plant for the wood, where the land is cheap enough to admit of it, and the planter realizes that he will have to wait for a number of years for his first returns from the wood, the chestnut is a desirable sort of a tree to plant, as it is of fairly rapid growth. Where the fruit, or rather nuts, are the desired quality, the sorts and kind planted do not go to wood quite so rapidly as do the common Sweet American Chestnut, though the return from the nuts far more than make up any loss from that condition. A grove of one or two acres or more of grafted or budded chestnut trees will soon pro- duce a very substantial crop, in fact some of the trees produce a few nuts the second year after planting and then in increasing quantities each year thereafter, though for the health of the trees and to induce a vigorous growth the first few years at least, it is best to remove the nut clusters when formed, and not permit the trees to bear until the third year. Any land which will produce good corn will be suitable for planting the chestnut. They should be planted in the early spring, and from twenty to twenty-five feet apart, the land being cultivated in vegetables for the first two or three years—but never wheat, oats, or grass— so as to insure the ground being well tilled, well fertilized, and a fair share of protection be given to the land by the leaves of the growing crops. The land can then be put down to clover for a couple of years, when it should again be cultivated for two or three seasons, thus getting returns from the same piece while the trees are coming into pro- fitable bearing. One of the very best sorts of cultivated chestnut is the Alpha, which is a medium-to-large nut, a regular cropper, and brings the highest price.
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