fruits and nut crops and, in a way, I am glad there are because I
am of the opinion there is no such thing as harvesting without
cultivation. For instance, if you plant them and let nature take its
course--it will. It will on an apple, too.

We have found a few small lesions of chestnut blight which were removed
by pruning and then painted with pine tar. They usually occurred at a
previous point of pruning. Some of the transplanted seedlings have
developed a twig canker at a bud, but I've never seen them kill one and
even when we don't prune it out, the tree overcomes it by new growth.

The Japanese beetle attacks the chestnut but, although they were bad
this year, one spraying of DDT was effective. The weevil (curculio) was
bad enough last year so we are spraying this year. Small growers should
put the nuts in metal containers and thus destroy the larvae, if any.

I would like to remark here that we are a nursery growing many
ornamentals, and the Chinese chestnut, although low branched, is a very
ornamental tree. I know of no tree that has a handsomer dark, shiny
green leaf or one whose green color holds so well until frost.

Now I think you will agree I have reported the behavior of our trees
fairly, the difficulties of raising the trees, and have emphasized that
I doubt if you will get success with the Chinese chestnut without
effort; yet in conclusion I would like to step into "fantasy". Our No.
19 tree bore 124 pounds; suppose you had 50 trees per acre bearing that
quantity. You would get 6,000 pounds per acre. The European chestnut,
which is not as good, brought 30c on the Baltimore market last year.
That would mean $1,800.00 per acre. Imagine having 10 acres!

1947 CROP

Pounds of Chestnuts from Original Trees at Eastern Shore Nurseries, Inc.

No. 1, 78; No. 2, 58; No. 3, 51-1/4; No. 4, 7-1/2; No. 5, 49; No. 6, 31;
No. 7, 34; No. 8, 31-1/2; No. 9, 63; No. 10, 40-1/2; No. 11, 61-1/2; No.
12, 64-1/2; No. 13, 56; No. 14, 47-1/2; No. 15, 74; No. 16, 60; No. 18,
106; No. 19, 25-1/2--Total, 938-3/4 pounds.

=Young Orchard:= 225-1/2 pounds.

Discussion after E. Sam Hemming's paper

Corsan: "Do you recommend the use of lime?"

Hemming: "We do not use lime. We use Vigoro at the rate of 1 to 1-1/2
lbs. to inch of diameter per tree."

Corsan: "Why do you use Vigoro?"

Hemming: "No particular reason, just that it is available."

Member: "What time of year do you fertilize your trees?"

Hemming: "We fert