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Title: Parrys' Pomona Nurseries
Identifier: CAT31284863 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Parry's Pomona Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Nut trees Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Parry, N. J. : Parrys' Pomona Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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10 PARRYS' POMONA NURSERIES, PARRY, NEW JERSEY
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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 i 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 OX 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 hardv in northern New York. Chestnut Culture. Extracts from a paper read before the Gloucester County Farmers' 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 crop which, when once planted, is there certainly for many generations, and will annually yield an immense revenue without cultivation, with- out manure, almost without care. "Another advantage of this CROP is, that the only work re- quired on it, the gathering and marketing of the nuts, comes at a time of year, September and early October, when most other farm work is not so pressing. Nuts are not perishable, like melons. If not gathered today, tomorrow or next week will do. Neither must they be sold as soon as ship- ped, but can be kept for days, put in storage for weeks, or shipped thou- sands of miles to a better market. Again, at this time of year, when the receipts of the farm are apt to be light, Chestnuts make a welcome addition to the market returns. " 3Iany farmers are not yet ready to plant their level fields in Chestnut trees, but on most farms there are ravines and hill- sides well adapted to Chestnut culture, and on every farm there are lanes, headlands and roadsides which, if set in Chestnuts, woxild pay as well or better than the best cultivated land on the farm. What an amount of food would be pro- duced if all the maple and other shade trees along our roadsides were bearing Chestnuts ! The Chestnut furnishes ample shade, and at the same time yields a valu- able food. At the present prices of Chestnuts they are more of a luxury than a food; yet the time is coming when they will be used as a standard food and the demand will be unlimited. "Chestnut Flour is largely used in southern Europe for bread, cake and pies. The nut is also largely boiled whole and eaten as a vegetable. It is too high- priced to be used in this manner in this country. But as the Chestnut yields as many bushels per acre as either wheat or corn, it must eventually take its place as a staple food product. "In planting Chestnuts, care must be taken to set them in congenial soil, or failure is apt to result. The Chestnut does best upon an open soil, with a deep, por- ous, well-drained subsoil. A heavy, sticky clay soil with an impervious wet subsoil will not answer. Hill- sides and sloping groiind, where the water drains quickly away, suits the tree well. "The question of varieties is also of vital impor- tance. A grove of seedling Chestnuts is of no more value than an orchard of seedling apple trees. Perhaps one out of a hundred may be of value, while 99 will be of little account. Besides, a grove of seedlings will be 10 to 15 years coming into profit, while grafted trees begin to bear the second year from the graft. Again, it is important to have all the trees ripening at one time, close together, so as to save time in gathering. Also, IT IS BEST TO HAVE MOST OF YOUR TREES OF EARLY VARIETIES, SO as to market them while the price is high. None of these objects can be attained with seedling trees. Again, seedlings vary as much in productive- ness as in any other point, so that while some might yield well, the vast majority would probably be worth- less for profit, so that it would be time and money lost to grow any but grafted trees of the best varieties. "There 'are three groups of Chestnuts in cultiva-

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