I planted a tree plot similar to the one on the Wildlife Group's website behind my house. It has many different varieties of hard and soft mass trees grouped together with about an acre food plot in the middle. I planted the trees 6-7 years ago and also have several different trees planted in other areas on my farm some of which are 8 or 9 years old. This is in SE Va. I have a good variety including pears, crabapples, apples, persimmons, DCO, AC, hazlenuts, Chinese chestnuts and multiple varieties of oaks. It has been my observation that the best young trees by far have been the sawtooths and crabapples for early & heavy production, fast growth and attractiveness to deer. The AC's & DCO's have produced but not nearly as heavily as the sawtooths. I am hoping that I can get a handful of the chestnut trees to maturity as I have had several of them die after they were seemingly healthy 6-7 year old trees. I know the chestnuts are excellent but none of mine have produced yet and they are much more finicky than the sawtooths. If I were to do it over knowing what I know now, I would concentrate more on sawtooths and crabapples. Just my $0.02.