ma, Georgia.

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Tree Proposed Yield in Pounds by Years Total yield No. Nuts
(in Lbs.) per Lb.
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No. Name 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 from Planting
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7880[5]Meiling .2 3.6 20.9 36.9 23.9 73.1 36.9 195.5 38-43
7919 Kuling 4.0 3.8 5.8 6.5 13.8 34.2 50.2 38.2 168.5 35-43
7930 Nanking .1 3.8 28.0 37.8 1.0 87.7 54.6 213.0 30-43
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[Footnote 5: Meiling ("Beauty") is the first name of Mme. Chiang
Kai-shek.]

The trees of the "FP" designation and, of other species were grown to
fruiting, but have since been removed or topworked in entirety because
of their lack of desirable characteristics and because they produced
pollen for cross-pollination which would result in undesirable progeny
when the _Castanea mollissima_ nuts were used for seed. Furthermore, a
number of trees of the three-letter designations have been removed or
topworked because they produced very small nuts, or showed poor keeping
quality, or because of some other undesirable characteristic. Therefore,
the nuts now being produced in this experimental orchard are of pure _C.
mollissima_ inheritance of the best type, and, as such, represent some
of the best and purest seed nuts available in this country today. This
procedure is being continued so as to maintain the quality of the nuts
for seed purposes at its present standard.

Unfortunately, many of the nuts offered in the general trade for seed
purposes at the present time are coming from orchards composed of a
mixture of species or types comparable to the 1938 Philema planting
before culling. This is very undesirable because of the great
variability in the nuts produced by trees with such an origin. When
grafted or budded trees of the newer and improved varieties are
available to orchardists chestnut growing for nut production may be
based on the same sound practices as the other fruit industries.

In the topworking of "FP" trees at Philema with scions from other
strains of _Castanea mollissima_ the degree of incompatibility has been
so great, that the scion tops will have either blown out or died at the
end of