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Show 1 Improved Chestnut Culture. Grafted Paragon chesnut trees begin to bear the second year after af-ter grafting, and bear full crops every year. This variety of chestnut chest-nut will stand as much cold as the apple. It ripens about two weeks befor the American " chestnut, chest-nut, frost not being required to open the burrs. Forty selected nuts fill a quart measure and have been sold in Philadelphia at the rate of $8 to $10 per bushel. In point of quality it is, in the opinion of leading horticulturists, nearly or quite equal to our native chestnuts. Persons owning land from which chestnut timber has been cut, who have allowed the suckers or sprouts to grow from the stumps, have the best foundation for a successful, chestnut grove by grafting the suckers or sprouts with the 'Paragon. In five or six years from five to ten bushels of Paragon chestnuts can bo grown to the acre, and in ten be grown to the acre, and in ten yaars twenty twen-ty bushels. Massachusetts Ploughman. |