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Dr. Bartlett was especially enamored by nut trees and several of his plantings remain to this day. Pecans, walnuts, butternuts, heartnuts (pictured, left), and horse chestnuts are scattered about the property.

The trees in front of the Education Center are the offspring of a hybrid chestnut developed from Asiatic strains by the U.S. Department of Agriculture many years ago. The parent tree is the smaller specimen south of the building emerging from a stump by the parking area. It is a Castaned mollissima x hybrid. Although resistant to the chestnut blight fungus these trees are not immune. Note the blight cankers on the trunks and limbs of many specimens. A C. mollissima from Asia brought the chestnut blight into the United States in 1904.