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Title: Spring 1898 : Parrys' Pomona Nurseries
Identifier: CAT31294428 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Parry's Pomona Nurseries.; Parry, John R.; Parry, William.
Subjects: Nursery stock Prices New Jersey; Nurseries (Horticulture) New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Nut trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Parry, N. J. : Parrys' Pomona Nurseries

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PARRY S' POMONA NURSERIES 23
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JAPAN MAMMOTH CHESTNUT TREE, four years old, at Pomona Nurseries, producing four quarts of mammoth nuts, PEDIGREE CHESTNUTS. Since our first importation of Japan Mam- moth Chestnut by a careful selection of seed from trees yielding, in abundance, nuts of large size, good form, good quality, and ripening early, we have produced a very superior strain of this valuable Chestnut, that can be relied on to bear large, handsome and desirable nuts. From among thousands of these Pedigree Japan Mammoth Chestnuts we have selected a few of rare value. Their special features being young fruiting, great and uniform an- nual productiveness, large and attractive nuts of good quality, tipening earlyall of which they possess in a remarkable degree. They are much larger than any of the American, French, Spanish or Italian varieties. They commence bearing much younger—one year grafts are often set with nuts; ripen much earlier, which is of vast importance to the market man; are much more productive, and are brighter, smoother nuts, free from fuz, which renders them more attractive and salable. We have fruited them several years, and they have never failed to produce good crops, having no off years. The Japan Chestnuts, like the Spanish, have a bitter skin, which should be removed before eating raw, when the kernel beneath will be sweet and good, or the bitterness of

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