the State Horticultural Society for testing new fruits. These are still
living and bearing good crops.
I feel sure you will have a good meeting and am very sorry I can not be
with you. Give my best regards to my nut growing friends, to all of whom
a cordial invitation is extended to visit me and see what I am doing
here with chestnuts.
Truly
E. A. RIEHL.
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NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION GENEVA, N. Y.
June 24, 1922.
Dear Dr. Deming:
It is kind indeed of you to ask me to help you out in your coming
convention. Were I to be in the country I should be very glad to do
anything I could to help out. I am leaving in a few days, however, to
spend the summer in Europe and shall not be home at the time of your
meeting.
You may be interested in knowing that we are growing some almonds on the
Station grounds and that we have been trying to cross them with peaches.
We think we have a cross but just what it will amount to I do not know.
At any rate, we are living in hopes that sometime we may breed an almond
for this part of the world. We are doing something with other nuts but
not as much as I should like. We are always hoping that opportunity may
offer to do more and possibly we shall be able to within a year or two.
Very truly yours,
U. P. HEDRICK.
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The Battle Creek Sanitarium
Battle Creek, Michigan
September 5, 1922.
MR. JAMES S. McGLENNON,
Rochester, New York
Dear Sir:--
Enclosed you will find my paper.
I am very sorry, indeed, that I could not be with you, but an unexpected
amount of surgical work compelled me to remain at home. I hope you will
have a most successful convention. The Nut Growers Association, in my
opinion, may prove one of the most important factors in the world
movement for race betterment.
Sincerely yours,
JOHN HARVEY KELLOGG.
ATTENDANCE
Dr. Robert T. Morris, N. Y. City, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. McGlennon, Miss
Norma McGlennon, Mrs. W. D. Ellwanger, Rochester, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. W.
G. Bixby, Baldwin, N. Y., J. F. Jones, Lancaster, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. J.
M. Patterson, Putney, Ga., S. W. Snyder, Center Point, Iowa, Harry R.
Weber, Cincinnati, Ohio, John Rick, Reading, Pa., Jas. A. Neilson,
Guelph, Canada, Joseph A. Smith, Providence, Utah, Harry D. Whitner,
Reading, Pa., Henry D. Spencer, Decatur, Ills., Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L.
Smedley, Newtown Square, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Corsan, Brooklyn, N.
Y. Jacob E. Brown, Elmer, N. J., W. R. Fickes, Wooster, Ohio, W. J.
Strong, Vineland Station, Ontario, Canada, P. H. O'Connor, Bowie,
Maryland, Adelbert Thomson, East Avon, N. Y., A. C. Pomeroy, Lockport,
N. Y., F. A. Bartlett, Stamford, Ct., Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Graham, Ithaca,
N. Y., E. L. Wyckoff, Aurora, N. Y., M. G. Kains, Suffern, N. Y., Mrs.
J. B. Comstock, Hollywood, Cal., Joseph Baker Comstock, III, Hollywood,
Cal., Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hoopes, Pa. John Dunbar, Rochester, N. Y., R.
E. Horsey, John P. Lauth, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Rawnsley, Geo. B. Tucker,
Mrs. C. R. Nolan, D. D. Culver, M. L. Culver, C. A. Vick, Mrs. K. Dugan,
W. J. Nolan, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Garrison, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Spurr,
Miss K. M. Pirrung, Miss Ida Schlegel, Alois Piehler, Miss Robena
Murdoch, John Herringler, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Vollertsen, Elwood D.
Haws, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph T. Olcott, Rochester, N. Y.
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List of Nuts exhibited before the Northern Nut Growers Association
September 7-8-9, 1922 at Rochester, N. Y., by Park Department.
Black Walnut, Juglans nigra, United States.
English Walnut, Juglans Regia, Europe and China.
Western Walnut, Juglans major, Western States.
Hybrid Walnut from Washington, D. C, supposed hybrid between
Juglans rupestris and Juglans nigra.
Butternut, Juglans cinerea, North America.
Siebold's Butternut, Juglans Sieboldiana, Japan.
Juglans cathayensis, China.
Juglans coarctata, Japan.
Winged Chinese Walnut, Pterocarya stenoptera, China.
Winged Caucasian Walnut, Pterocarya fraxinifolia, West Asia.
King-Nut, Carya laciniosa, United States.
Shagbark, Carya ovata, North America.
Carya ovata ellipsoidalis, United States.
Ash-leaved Hickory, Carya ovata fraxinifolia, United States.
False Shagbark, Carya ovalis, United States.
Small Fruited Hickory, Carya ovalis odorata, North America.
Carya ovalis obovalis, North America.
Carya ovalis obcordata, United States.
Pignut, Carya glabra, North America.
Large Pignut, Carya glabra megacarpa, United States.
Bitternut, Carya cordiformis, North America.
Hybrid Hickory, X Carya Laneyi, Carya cordiformis X Carya ovata.
Hybrid Hickory, X Carya Dunbarii, Carya laciniosa X Carya ovata.
Beaked Hazel, Corylus rostrata, North America.
American Hazel, Corylus americana, North America.
European Hazel, Corylus Avellana, Eastern Hemisphere.
Constantinople Hazel, Corylus Colurna, South Europe.
Manchurian Hazel, Corylus mandshurica, Manchuria.
Sweet Chestnut, Castanea dentata, United States.
European Chestnut, Castanea sativa, Europe to China.
Japanese Chestnut, Castanea crenata, Japan, China.
Chinquapin, Castanea pumila, United States.
By the McGlennon-Vollertsen Filbert Nursery, twenty or more plates, of
about a quart each, of named varieties of the European filbert grown in
these Rochester nurseries, a very striking exhibit in demonstration of
the commercial possibilities of this nut. By E. L. Wyckoff, Aurora, N.
Y., a cluster of Indiana pecans, grown on a grafted tree at Aurora, of
good size, apparently, other qualities not determined. A cluster of two
small pecans grown on the great pecan tree in Hartford, Ct. One of these
nuts was matured and filled. Brought by W. C. Deming who showed also
chinkapins grown in Hartford and Redding, Conn. two strains of the Van
Fleet hybrid chinkapins, Chinese chestnuts, C. mollissima, Japanese
chestnuts, clusters of Kirtland and Griffin shagbarks from grafted
trees, Ridenhauer almonds and several varieties of European and American
filberts, all grown in Redding, Ct. filberts from the large trees at
Bethel, Ct. and the large Sayre English walnut from Danbury, Ct.
Illinois wild almonds were exhibited by Henry D. Spencer of Decatur,
Ills. These have a fleshy covering like a thin peach. Mr. P. H. O'Connor
showed specimens of the O'Connor hybrid walnut, J. regia X. J. nigra,
and the Indiana hazel. Mr. A. C. Pomeroy had an exhibit of the Pomeroy
English walnut. There were a number of other exhibits which have escaped
record.