And no wonder - from these two trees sprang most of the chestnuts now grown in the United States. It’s not often that a couple of trees are singled out in real estate ads, but these were. ¶ But pride of place belongs to a pair of chestnut trees, probably 60 feet tall and at least a yard across. The grapevine that covers a backyard arbor has a trunk at least a foot around. ¶ There are craggy cherry and plum trees and an apple tree so old it’s little more than a hollowed-out stump that somehow still manages to sprout green branches. On a hill just outside the Gold Rush town of Nevada City, Calif., about an hour northeast of Sacramento, stands a sweet 1890s Victorian farmhouse surrounded by several acres of venerable-looking gardens.
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