(Newspaper is very good for this purpose.--J. C. McD.)

MR. CORSAN: And no waxing.

MR. BERNATH: No.

MR. STOKE: I agree with you. I got some scions that were waxed, and the

scion was beautifully green and every bud was dead.

MR. BERNATH: That's it again. The reason for that is that you have to

heat the wax to make it thin enough, and the reaction of the heat is bad

for the scion wood.

MR. STOKE: I don't believe it's that alone. I believe a bud can't go

without air for a great length of time. It is a living organism and

needs the air. Those scions had come from Europe, and every one was

dead.

MR. BERNATH: Mr. Silvis will tell you how he keeps his scions good.

MR. SILVIS: Through Goodrich Chemical Company I was interested in what

Dr. Shelton, another Ohio member who is a chemist, had available, an

emulsion called "Goodrite Latex VL-600." That's the agricultural and

horticultural designation for its use. Otherwise, industrially it's

known as Geon 31 XX, and some other names.

MR. CORSAN: That is the latex that congeals quickly?

MR. SILVIS: Yes. It's water soluble and makes a very stiff; impervious

water barrier on everything it becomes attached to. Therefore, if you

dipped the entire scion--usually I go out and cut scion wood and maybe

even as late as the next day dip it in the latex. Then after it's dried

for five minutes, I can take and throw it in the garage and leave it

there until June, July and August, and I can take it to the

refrigerator, the same thing. I think the refrigerator is the best

place.

MR. SHERMAN: You know last March, at the Ohio meeting there was some

wood dipped there, and the latter part of May I came through and picked

up a piece and brought it in to Harrisburg in the back of my car in the

window where it was cooked in transportation, and it made two inches of

growth in the Harrisburg office just lying on my desk.

MR. SILVIS: I have seen it happen, and it doesn't restrict the growth. I

have had it on filberts, Persian walnut, and hickory. Then when I cut my

stock by using a simple splice graft, in grafting it I use a rubber

band, same rubber band they used here, tie it and just forget about it.

You don't need the additional shading, and you don't need additional

waxing.

DR. MacDANIELS: Can you use that material as a wax? Do you put on

additional wax?

MR. SILVIS: It isn't necessary in a splice graft, because you have got a

good union.

DR. MacDANIELS: Suppose you haven't got a good union?

MR. SILVIS: I wouldn't use it anyway, because you are covering the cut

portion pretty well anyhow.

MR. RICK: Is this outside or inside?

MR. SILVIS: I would say outside. You dip the wax at 70 degrees

temperature. Any colder than that would allow it to congeal. It's thick.

I am not sure about this, but I think you can dilute it with about eight

parts water, if you wish, six or eight parts water to one part latex. It

still will make a complete coverage.

That's for scion storage, and it does eliminate making boxes in some

places where they have storage problems. It eliminates the storage

problem and eliminates waxing immediately after grafting.

MR. WEBER: Your method completely shuts off the air from the bud the

same as waxing would do.

MR. SILVIS: And any water going in.

MR. STOKE: I was wondering how long you kept it. You said it was soluble

in water. You mean before it sets up?

MR. SILVIS: Before it sets up.

MR. LOWERRE: That's if it's a suspension. It is some time before the

water sets up.

MR. STOKE: Retaining moisture and yet being soluble, and that's the

thing I wanted to clarify.

MR. SILVIS: If you leave it out, it is a dispersal, let's call it, but

it appears like shellac after it is dry.

(Editor's Note: See fuller discussion in 1949 Report, pp. 30-37.)

MR. CHASE: I think we all owe Mr. Bernath a vote of thanks for showing

us this. (Applause.) We will visit his place tomorrow, and if you have

additional questions, I am sure he will be glad to answer them for you.

He has left the grafting case over here for anyone to see.

MR. SHERMAN: In case of heavy rain tomorrow, what are the plans?

MR. SALZER: Wear rubbers.

MR. CHASE: We are not going to have any rain tomorrow.

(He was right.--Ed.)

We have a short paper here that I have asked Dr. Anthony to summarize

for us, "Experiences in Nut Growing Near Lake Erie," by Ross P. Wright,

Erie, Pennsylvania.

DR. ANTHONY: Mr. Wright is a very interesting man and has a very

interesting plantation. He is a manufacturer and fortunately has a son

who is mature and married and as interested in the work as he, so there

is a continuity that we are pretty sure of.

Experiences in Nut Growing Near Lake Erie

ROSS PIER WRIGHT, Erie, Pennsylvania

This report should be made by my son Richard Wright. He is in charge of

the farm but is on a trip to Europe with his family and will not return

in time for your meeting.

The farm is located in the Chautauqua Grape Belt; due to the proximity

of Lake Erie, which acts as a heat reservoir, it is not as a rule

bothered by the late frosts in the Spring or early frosts in the Fall,

this making it a very satisfactory climate for Concord grapes. Peaches

are also grown commercially.

The village of Westfield is located on the main road between Erie and

Buffalo, and the Wright family has lived there for the past 136 years.

We have several hundred acres and really started the endeavor more with

the idea of seeing if nuts might be profitably grown, without any idea

of going into the nut business.

In 1915, 35 years ago, we planted a three acre plot with several

varieties of nut trees obtained from nurseries. They were black walnuts,

hickories, hazel nuts, pecans, English walnuts, and Japanese heartnuts.

The black walnuts are native of Westfield and the trees we planted have

done well. The only hickories that survived were two Siers hickories. We

did not think much of them until recently as they did not fill out any

too well, but the last three or four years they have for some reason

decided to fill better. Due to the extremely thin shell they are very

easily cracked and at the moment we think quite highly of these Siers

hickories.

We have a nut cracker made by the Dazey Corporation of St. Louis,

Missouri, which costs $5.00 or $6.00. It is very effective with the

Siers but does not crack thick shelled hickories very well. On the other

hand it is ideal for pecans and English walnuts.

The filberts in this field are not very satisfactory, with the exception

of the Winkler hazel. These usually bear very well. The trouble with the

filberts is that the catkins are quite prone to winter kill but the

Winkler hazel seems to be more hardy. There again we think more of them

since we have used the Dazey Nut Cracker. The Winkler nuts are rather

small and have quite a hard shell and if a hammer is used it is quite

likely to crush the kernel.

The English walnuts we planted at that time were not of a hardy type and

were prone to winterkill. There are really only two stunted trees left.

The pecans do not winterkill but the nuts do not fill.

The Japanese heartnuts we planted were successful. One of them we

consider very satisfactory and is worthy of propagation. We call it the

Lobular heartnut.

In the Spring of 1923, 27 years ago, we obtained a half bushel of

heartnuts from our representative in Japan and planted them. Three years

later we interplanted some of the trees in a four acre field in which we

were planting as permanent trees some Snyder and Thomas black walnuts.

Reporting on that field as it is today we will say that these walnuts

and heartnuts, up to five years ago, bore very well indeed and the nuts

filled properly, but the last few years the nuts have not filled

properly although they have received nitrate of soda. We are somewhat in

a quandry as to the reason for it.

Adjoining the field is a black walnut tree, probably 150 years old,

which always bore nuts and they have always filled up to the last few

years. In this field where the majority of the seedling heartnuts have

been planted there was the usual interesting difference in the nuts.

Some were of the true heartnut variety, some had the rough shaggy shell

and shape of a butternut and others were round and looked like English

walnuts. Some of the heartnut trees have developed a disease called

witches'-broom or bunch disease. There does not, to date, seem to be any

cure for it. We used some heavy applications of zinc sulphate and

thought the trouble had improved but the improvement seems to have been

only temporary.

In this field also are the trees which Clarence Reed designated as the

Wright heartnut and the Westfield heartnut.

In 1933 to 1935, 15 to 17 years ago, we grafted about 35 hickories with

various varieties. They were grafted in a grove of hickories which were

on our farm and which were perhaps eight inches in diameter. This

endeavor did not prove to be much of a success. Some of the grafts died

after a year or two and the others which have continued to live do not

appear to bear to any extent. We would have to mark that particular

endeavor down as very close to a failure.

Perhaps if we had given the grafting endeavor more attention we might

have had different results but we are in the manufacturing business in

Erie, Pennsylvania, and really look upon the Westfield, New York, farm

as a type of relaxation. In those years 1933 to 1935 industry was

experiencing a major distress and I am afraid most of our attention was

given to our factory rather than our farm. In fact, that situation

applies very largely to all of our nut endeavors. There is an old Scotch

saying "The eye of the master fattens the kine," and during the last 15

or 20 years when we in industry have experienced a tremendous depression

followed by a war it has meant that those interested have had to watch

their manufacturing plants to the detriment of their other interests

regardless of how much they regretted it.

In 1934, 16 years ago, we became interested in chestnuts as a possible

commercial crop. We purchased a quantity from J. Russell Smith,

interplanting them in a vineyard we expected to pull out as it was

getting too old. Two years later, through the cooperation of Clarence

Reed, Dr. Gravatt, also others at Beltsville, Maryland, we got some

2,000 seedlings of various types, some being hybrids. As some of these

bore we planted what we thought were the best nuts in a nursery and at

present have about 3000 chestnut trees ranging from three years old up

to 16 years. There is some blight occasionally showing which appears to

be on the hybrids. About 35 acres of the chestnuts were interplanted in

vineyards which we were planning to pull out. During the war, however,

the price of grapes was quite high and we left the grapes, pulling the

last of them out this Spring. Due to cultivation of the grapes an

appreciable number of the nut trees were cut out accidentally, and have

later been filled in with seedlings, with the result that the orchard

has a rather peculiar appearance. The mature trees, this year, have been

doing, we think, very well, and a great majority of them are bearing

from a light crop to a rather heavy crop.

Up to date we have had no trouble with worm in our chestnuts. In fact we

have not found a single wormy chestnut. This interests us appreciably,

as when the old American chestnuts were common on our farm it would seem

as if hardly a chestnut escaped a worm hole if you kept them long

enough. If you ate the chestnuts immediately it wasn't so bad--the worms

were probably too small to be observed.

We understand that in some sections Chinese chestnuts are attacked by

worms but I repeat we haven't had one to date.

Our chestnuts are planted largely in Volusia clay loam on fields where

chestnuts formerly flourished. This soil is not fertile, as soils go,

and the trees will probably not grow as large nor will they grow as fast

as if planted in a more fertile soil. At first we used a spacing of 36

feet but we now use 24 feet, which we think will be satisfactory for our

farm.

Since the chestnuts have come into bearing and the project has become to

some extent a commercial one, we are more interested in doing what we

can for the trees. We are convinced that the mulching process is to be

recommended. There is some sawdust to be obtained in this section and as

far as it goes we have covered the ground under the branches of the

trees with a mulch of sawdust about five or six inches deep. We will not

know how successful that is for a few years.

We have planted the fields with a cover crop of rye grass and orchard

grass, and this month are cutting it and throwing it under the trees.

We have some adjoining fields which were in hay but which had rather run

out. We are cutting these likewise and throwing the hay under the trees.

We believe if we keep this practice up for a few years we will have a

reasonable mulch under the trees. We have become interested in Reed

canary grass. We have had a few sample patches of it and are going to

plant a couple of outside fields with it to be used for mulch. It grows

stronger than any other northern grass with which we are conversant, and

therefore would produce more mulch. We are also giving the land two

rather heavy applications of mixed fertilizer each year.

We think the chief thing we have learned about chestnuts is that the

first few years the trees should be cultivated, fertilized, watered, and

mulched. You cannot handle them the way you could, for instance,

Christmas trees by simply sticking them in a field of grass. The first

year they should be watered every ten days if they require it, and

watered the second year if there is a real drought.

In closing we would say that as far as our immediate section is

concerned, it is our guess that chestnuts are the only nuts which might

appear to have commercial possibilities. Of course, at present, the nuts

sell at quite a high price and I fear beyond their value. What will

happen when the numerous orchards which have been planted in the last

few years come into bearing is any man's guess.

We do not believe that the black walnuts would ever prove a commercial

success here, although they normally do well. Of course the trouble is

the competition of the wild nuts from other sections. On the other hand,

if some one had the time to give to working up a market for the improved

black walnuts, he might get some profit out of it.

If I were younger, I might want to try growing a number of Winkler hazel

nuts. I think hazel nuts covered with chocolate make a very attractive

candy, and here, in this section, the Winkler seems to be immune to

blight and other troubles. This year, for the first time in our

recollection, the frost got them and the crop is very light.

I do not know just what to say about the heartnuts. They might not have

enough flavor to suit some people, but when eaten with salt I think they

are delicious. They are very free cracking. We have one, the Lobular,

which as soon as they are cracked can be shaken out of the shell. I am

disturbed however over the bunch disease to which some of them are

subject.

Please note that our remarks in regard to the commercial possibilities

of these various nuts has reference to our farm at Westfield and to no

other place.

I regret I am not going to be at your meeting to endeavor to answer any

question which might be asked.

Discussion of Mulches

DR. ANTHONY: Mr. Sherman and I were there a few years ago, and he has

very definitely given up the heartnut and black walnut. Many trees in

this area are affected with this bunch disease, which caused failure to

set, and he has very definitely decided that he is out of those two

nuts.

MR. FRYE: That sawdust, how old must it be, and how green have you used?

DR. ANTHONY: We have used sawdust in our fruit tree work. There is a

period when I don't like it. When it's raw and going down, it uses a

good deal of nitrogen. Also, if it gets dry, it will blow. Also when it

gets dry it will run off with the water, and I would like to use it

pretty well rotted down when I get it, and usually you can find old

rotted piles. If you do use it on trees where nitrogen is a factor, you

probably will have to use additional nitrogen.

Now, with the chestnut where you want to mature them fairly early in the

fall, it might work all right, because it will withhold the nitrogen in

the breakdown of your sawdust. But apparently, it works pretty well. I

think it was Mr. Sam Hemming who suggested using it in the rows. Most of

our State Forests and Waters nurseries in their seedling beds, plant

their seedlings, including chestnuts, make a mixture of sawdust and

sand, about one of sawdust and two of sand, and then broadcast that

right over their seeds. The seeds are broadcast on the firm soil, then

this mixture of sawdust and sand is broadcast over the seeds. That gives

a uniform planting of your seeds and gives a very nice protection. There

is one place that I think sawdust works very nicely.

Straw mulch, any material of that kind, in breaking down takes nitrogen

from the soil. They are all good if you balance that loss of nitrogen

that is lost during the period of breakdown. Now, there comes a time, if

you put a mulch on the soil and let it stay there for six or eight years

and keep building it up, when you pass imperceptibly from straw into

soil, and when you reach that time, your breakdown of your straw is

usually done without taking nitrogen from your soil itself, and from

that time on you may release nitrogen. But until you get that

imperceptible transformation from straw to soil, there is a time when

the breakdown of the straw uses your nitrogen, which is all right, if

it's late in the season, but not early. I'd want to watch my trees and

get my nitrogen on early, then let the straw use it later on.

A MEMBER: The migration of nitrogen--is there some such migration, and

is it just in the case of the sawdust?

DR. ANTHONY: You put it right on top, it's much worse. You can put it

right on top and it will take a year or two to pass through that period

where the utilization in the breaking down of the straw is greater than

the release of nitrogen. If it's mixed in the soil, the tree gets more

of it.

MR. STOKE: How deep is that effect on the soil?

DR. ANTHONY: We have used straw, hay, weeds, sawdust, chips, anything of

the kind, putting on a 5 to 6-inch layer. As I say, it takes from one to

three years to get through that period.

Now, Massachusetts has the longest continuous use--all of New England

has--of mulch, and they are reaching a point now where some of the

mulches are ten years old where the release of nitrogen is too much and

they get poor color on McIntosh. I think with the Chinese chestnut this

is one thing we have got to watch to get good maturity. Going farther

and farther south, you have more trouble. As you go to the north, our

trees color more easily, and there you wouldn't want to force them, as

our New England people find. They are releasing too much nitrogen late

in the season. So I would not want to use long, continued mulch in the

chestnut, I'd watch my maturity, and the minute they get a little slow

in maturing, I'd quit.

MR. BERST: How about corn cobs?

MR. JAY SMITH: How about anything in the street, leaves?

DR. ANTHONY: Anything like that, whether it's oak or maple. One goes

down as quickly as the other.

MR. CORSAN: On the way down here I called in to see Rodale, and we found

him in a mass of brewer's hops and ground up corn cobs. He had them in

the chicken house, and you know how a chicken house smells. He had no

smell in the chicken house. We looked all through his place, and we saw

another big pile of furs, mink, and such trimming off of them, a big

pile about that high (indicating), and that will go down. He had

everything under the sun in the way of mulch, but corn cobs ground up

fine was the chief one in sight.

Personally, I like to grow the mulch on the land right there. We can

grow it--up to 10 ton of green mulch to the acre. I have done it many,

many times. You have something there that goes down quickly. The very

growing of that through the latter part of the summer also uses the

nitrogen and hardens up your trees. Then we turn it down and within two

to three weeks we have it reseeded, and so we are growing a constant

supply in the soil-itself. You get the same effect as hauling in your

mulch. It's cheaper, usually, and you get, I think, a little bit better

control. Your mulches are not dry, they are turned under when--well,

it's crimson clover in the red, right in the blossom. They go down very

quickly. We leave as much as possible on the surface. I think it's a

little cheaper and a little more satisfactory control. I put them on

quite green. I find they rot much quicker.

MR. CHASE: I will now turn the gavel back to Dr. MacDaniels, who will

take over.

DR. MacDANIELS: Thank you, very much, Mr. Chase.

Perhaps we had better take a 10-minute recess.

(Whereupon, a short recess was taken.)

Nominating Committee Elected

DR. MacDANIELS: We will proceed with the election of a nominating

committee. That committee is elected. It is a committee of three, and

the nominations come from the floor. The present nominating committee is

Mr. Stoke, Mr. Sylvester Shessler, and Mr. Sterling Smith. Now, I guess

it is a good plan to change the nominating committee, and I think we

ought to have regional representation. I think that is important. Does

anybody have a nomination? Say we start in the Middle West.

A MEMBER: Mr. Silvis.

DR. MacDANIELS: He will take it. That's middle. Another nomination from

the farther west.

MR. CHASE: Mr. Chairman, I nominate Dr. Crane.

DR. MacDANIELS: That would be South Atlantic.

MR. WEBER: I nominate Mr. Chase.

DR. MacDANIELS: Do you wish to nominate more than three and have a

ballot?

MR. FRYE: I move nominations be closed.

DR. MacDANIELS: Nominations closed. Do you move to have the secretary

cast a unanimous ballot?

DR. McKAY: So move, Mr. Chairman.

MR. WEBER: Proceed with the election.

DR. MacDANIELS: The motion is that nominations be closed and the

secretary be instructed to cast a ballot for the slate as nominated. Any

further discussion? If not, all in favor say "aye."

(A vote was taken on the motion, and it was carried unanimously.)

DR. MacDANIELS: Carried.

Resolutions

DR. MacDANIELS: Is the Resolutions Committee here? Mr. Allaman, I

believe you are president of the Pennsylvania group, are you not?

MR. ALLAMAN: Yes.

"In the passing of Clarence A. Reed, who was a nut culturist of the

United States Department of Agriculture, we not only lost a friend in

the experimental field, but also a dear personal friend. Mr. Reed was

keenly interested in all phases of nut culture, devoting practically his

entire life to this work. We are more deeply indebted to him than can be

expressed. Paraphrasing what Lincoln said of the dead soldiers at

Gettysburg, it remains for us to continue the effort and build upon the

foundation to which he so largely contributed.

"Therefore, be it resolved that the secretary of this Association spread

upon the record this resolution and send a copy to Mrs. Reed."

DR. MacDANIELS: You have heard this resolution. I think it would be

appropriate we move to accept and adopt this by a rising vote.

(Whereupon, a rising vote was taken.)

DR. MacDANIELS: There are two other resolutions Mr. Allaman will read.

MR. ALLAMAN: "The Northern Nut Growers Association in its forty-first

meeting expresses its appreciation for the fine accomodations for its

meeting place supplied by Post No. 739 of the American Legion. The

Association also desires to compliment the Post on its foresight in

providing this community with such a satisfactory meeting place.

"May it therefore be resolved that the secretary spread this upon the

minutes and send a copy to the Legion."

Another resolution: "We, the members of the Northern Nut Growers

Association, express our keen appreciation of the very efficient

services of Mrs. Stephen Bernath and Gilbert L. Smith and others for

their splendid accommodations at this convention."

DR. MacDANIELS: These two resolutions, do you wish to accept them or

adopt them together?

DR. CRANE: Move that they be adopted as a whole.

DR. MacDANIELS: Moved that they be adopted together. Any discussion? If

not, all in favor say "aye."

(Whereupon, a vote was taken on the motion, and it was carried

unanimously.)

DR. MacDANIELS: Passed without dissent.

Are there other resolutions anyone has from the floor?

(No response.)

Report of Auditing Committee

DR. MacDANIELS: The auditing committee's report.

MR. WEBER: I have it. "We have found from our examination of the

treasurer's records that his accounts are in proper balance and that the

statement of his bank account, issued by his bank as of August 11, 1950,

shows he had on deposit in the Erie County United Bank of Vermilion,

Ohio, the sum of $2280.37. We feel our treasurer, Mr. Sterling A. Smith,

has faithfully discharged his duties during the current year and

recommend his continuance in that office, nomination for which has

already, of course, taken place. Royal Oakes, Chairman, Auditing

Committee." (Applause.)

DR. MacDANIELS: It all sounds very legal. I think it's all right. I take

it that applause indicates the acceptance of the report. Unless I hear

dissent, we will take that to be so.

DR. CRANE: Move the report of the Auditing Committee be accepted.

DR. MacDANIELS: O.K., we will make it legal. Who will second the motion?

MR. STOKE: Second.

DR. MacDANIELS: Moved and seconded that the Auditing Committee report be

accepted.

(A vote was taken on the motion, and it was carried unanimously.)

Election of 1950-51 Officers

DR. MacDANIELS: Next will be the election of officers, and we will ask

the chairman of the Nominating Committee to give his report. Inasmuch as

I am apparently concerned, I will hand the gavel to Mr. Chase for the

election.

MR. CHASE: We'd like to hear the report from the chairman of the

Nominating Committee, Mr. Stoke.

MR. STOKE: Most of you no doubt heard the report of the Nominating

Committee at our first session, but we nominated Dr. William Rohrbacher

of Iowa City, Iowa, for president, and for vice-president our perennial

candidate here, who has disappeared from the scene, renominating Dr. L.

H. MacDaniels. We hope to make him president next time. If he doesn't

make it next time, I think we will have to throw him out. And for the

secretary, our friend, Joe McDaniel. They are not relatives. And the

treasurer, repeating officer, Sterling Smith. The secretaryship and

treasurership shouldn't change any more often than necessary.

MR. STERLING SMITH: I object.

Before you move on that, I'd like to say that it isn't really legal, I

think, that I should have been on the nominating committee, and being

one of the officers, it would be very well taken on my part if there

were any nominations from the floor.

MR. CHASE: We are coming to that.

Any objections that we have nominations from the floor? Are there any

nominations for president?

MR. WELLMAN: Move nominations be closed.

MR. CHASE: Are there any other nominations for vice-president? (No

response.) I am sure we must have one for the treasurer. (No response.)

Do we have any for secretary?

MR. CORSAN: Why not have the former Miss Jones president again?

MR. STOKE: She becomes a member of the Board of Directors, and I think

it would be out of order to elect her to another office.

MR. CORSAN: I withdraw it.

MR. CHASE: Now I will entertain your motion, Mr. Wellman.

MR. WELLMAN: I move it.

MR. CHASE: It has been moved that the slate by the nominating committee

be accepted.

DR. CRANE: Second.

(Whereupon, a vote was taken on the motion, and it was carried

unanimously.)

MR. CHASE: Dr. MacDaniels, you may come in now.

DR. CRANE: We moved that nominations be closed. We haven't accepted

them.

MR. STOKE: When you are through, I have a resolution to offer.

DR. CRANE: Move that the report of the nominating committee be accepted

and we proceed with the election by voice vote. All in favor of having

the secretary cast a ballot for the slate nominated by our nominating

committee please signify by saying "aye."

(A vote was taken on the motion, and it was carried unanimously.)

MR. STOKE: I would like to make a motion that we elect a

parliamentarian, and I wish to nominate Dr. Crane.

MR. STERLING SMITH: Second the motion.

(A vote was taken on the motion, and it was carried unanimously.)

MR. FRYE: We elected a parliamentarian last year. I wonder how it's

coming on.

DR. CRANE: I have a report on it.

MR. WEBER: Mr. John Davidson, Xenia, Ohio.

MR. McDANIEL: He was parliamentarian before we made him our president.

MR. WEBER: That's passed on to Dr. Crane.

MR. CHASE: Now, Dr. MacDaniels, you may come in.

DR. MacDANIELS: Hope it's legal.

Is there any further business? Do you think of any, Mr. Weber?

MR. WEBER: Hold it open until after the banquet. Then if we think of

something that we have left out, we haven't adjourned.

DR. MacDANIELS: I will adjourn this particular session and give the

gavel to our new president.

MR. WEBER: We adjourn until this evening at the banquet.

DR. ANTHONY: Before you bang it down, may I make one announcement? I

thought you would be interested in an action that the Pennsylvania Nut

Growers have taken. Mr. Allaman, it is O.K. to report that committee

appointment?

DR. MacDANIELS: The question is raised as to the time of the next

meeting. The place has been decided. The time, I think, has to be left

to be worked out with the authorities at Illinois, is that right? Do you

want to say a word, Dr. Colby?

DR. COLBY: It is difficult, if not impossible, to give an exact date

right now, because we don't know at this time what our facilities for

meeting rooms and lodging will be on any particular date in the latter

part of the month of August. We will have to check and find out the best

days, if that is agreeable to the group.

DR. MacDANIELS: Does this group wish to express a preference as to the

last week in August or the first week in September? In other words, it

would be the week before Labor Day, or the week after. That wouldn't

necessarily fix it, but it would give the committee, if there were no

other restrictions as to available facilities, would be a guide for a

choice.

MR. WELLMAN: Call for a show of hands.

DR. MacDANIELS: I will do that. Those who would prefer a meeting date

comparable to this year? (Showing of hands.)[34] Those who prefer the

week after Labor Day? (No hands raised.)

[34] The 1951 meeting will be at the University of Illinois in Urbana,

August 28 and 29, to be followed with a tour in western Illinois for

those who can stay through the morning of August 31.

MR. STERLING SMITH: Maybe those who prefer the after Labor Day date

aren't here now.

DR. ROHRBACHER: I just want to say I appreciate very much the honor that

has been bestowed upon me. I appreciate the fact that the president is

purely an emblem, a figurehead, but with the staff that's under him,

it's the same as in the Post Office Department of the United States, the

head receives all the salary and his understudies do all the work. So

it's a very appropriate setting, and we should go forward under a very

good staff of men that have been elected to the positions under that of

the president.

One thing I want to say in regard to the problem that came up last night

that was discussed: that as the president, I can assure you that the

vice-presidents are certainly not going to be emblems if they expect to

continue on in their positions in the various states that are in the

group, because the working out of this problem, the success of it, is

going to depend on how well these vice-presidents carry out their work.

I thank you.

DR. MacDANIELS: We will close this session until tonight. I will give

Dr. Rohrbacher the gavel.

(Whereupon, at 4:50 o'clock, p.m., the Tuesday afternoon session of the

Northern Nut Growers Association was closed.)

Note on the Annual Tour, August 30, 1950

The third day of the Annual meeting, as is customary with the

Association, was spent touring interesting nut plantings in the

vicinity. The first stop was Bernath's Nursery, southwest of Pleasant

Valley, where he has his greenhouse, young nut plants, and a number of

fruiting trees. The second stop was on the grounds of the State School

at Wassaic, where many grafted nut trees, particularly walnuts, are

thriving, due to the interest and activity of Gilbert L. Smith, when he

was on the staff there. A picnic lunch was served in the recreational

area of the school grounds. Here Dr. W. C. Deming of Hartford, Conn.,

Dean of the Association, was on hand to greet many of his old friends.

After lunch we visited Mr. Stephen Bernath's farm nut planting, then the

topworked hickory woods on Mr. Wm. A. Benton's farm out of Millerton. At

the Benton and Smith Nut Nursery, also on the farm, the tour was

concluded.

OBITUARIES

Harry R. Weber

Members were saddened to hear of the death, on his way home, of Harry R.

Weber, who had taken an active part in the meeting at Pleasant Valley,

as he did in most of the meetings since the very earliest years of the

Association. We shall have a more complete obituary in the next volume.

George B. Rhodes

COVINGTON, Tenn., Dec. 16, 1950--Services for George B. Rhodes of Mt.

Carmel who died Saturday at 5:15 p.m. at his home will be held Sunday

afternoon at 3 at the Clopton Methodist Church. The Rev. David Olhansen,

pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. E. D. Farris of Henning will

officiate. Burial will be in the Clopton Cemetery.

Mr. Rhodes, who was 82, was born at Clopton, Tenn., and spent his entire

lifetime in Tipton County. He was the first county agent of Tipton

County. He was interested in the budding of pecans and had operated a

nursery for the past 20 years. He was a member of the Clopton Methodist

Church.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Ivie Drake Rhodes of Covington; two sons, Sol

Rhodes of Tampa, Fla., and Marion Rhodes of Beverly Hills, Calif.; two

daughters, Mrs. R. B. Davie of Covington and Mrs. Lillian Bringley of

Memphis; two sisters, Mrs. Pauline Meacham of Senatobia, Miss., and Mrs.

Mattie Nelson of Forrest City, Ark., and two brothers, Sam Rhodes of

Bolivar, and Duke Rhodes of San Francisco, Calif.; seven grandchildren

and five great grandchildren.--Reprinted from a Memphis paper.

Mr. Rhodes' greatest contribution to nut growing was the discovery and

first propagation of a heartnut variety mow called Rhodes. It is the

most successful heartnut yet tried in western Tennessee, a reliable and

heavy cropper, and one of the best cracking varieties of all known

heartnuts. It deserves testing in other areas.

Note: The following members of the N. N. G. A. have died recently, and

we hope to have fuller obituaries on them in the next volume:

Charles C. Dean, of Anniston, Ala. (Died September 21, 1950.)

Henry Gressel, of Mohawk, N. Y. (Died in June, 1951.)

W. N. Achenbach, of Petoskey, Mich.

L. B. Hoyer, of Omaha, Nebr.

Life Member Wang Is in Hong Kong

In our 1942 Report there was a note that our only Chinese member, P. W.

Wang, had probably died, since he had not been heard from since 1930.

Mr. Wang, we are happy to report, has recently written to us from Hong

Kong. Many of the nut trees he planted while secretary of the Kinsan

Arboretum at Chuking (not Chungking) in Kiangsu Province had survived

the Japanese invasions and were fruiting in 1945, but are now in

Communist hands. Mr. Wang hopes some day to be able to send to America

scions of a fine pecan (seedling of Teche variety) which he fruited at

Chuking. Meanwhile, he wishes to have nut literature and catalogues sent

to him at his present address: P. W. Wang, c/o China Products Trading

Corporation, 6 Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong.

Letters

Nuts in Quebec

July 16, 1950

Dr. George L. Slate,

Associate Professor,

New York State Agricultural Experiment Station,

Geneva, New York

Dear Dr. Slate:

I am very much flattered by your invitation to prepare a paper on nut

culture in Quebec. My only regret is that for two reasons I am unable to

comply with your request.

The first is that I am quite ignorant on the subject. It is only lately

that I have developed an interest in this matter when I suddenly found

myself responsible for a so-called "arboretum" which is now mainly empty

space that I am endeavoring to fill. The fact that shagbark hickory and

butternut were common in our woods and that some of our neighbors have

apparently flourishing individual trees of black walnut served to arouse

my interest in the question. One neighbour has a tree of what he calls

"French walnut" because they came from near Lyons, France, which are

evidently the ordinary English or Persian walnut. Furthermore, I have

been advised that there is quite a grove of black walnut near

Lotbiniere, Quebec, which is on the south shore of the St. Lawrence not

far from the city of Quebec. I understand that it was planted some

seventy-five years ago and trees are now timber size. Indeed, I was told

that the owner was offered a considerable sum during the war--the wood

was wanted for gun stocks. I have not been there to verify this. However

it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to get several specimens

of various nut species that might grow here to place in the

arboretum--this might incidentally give some information on what species

would survive our winters.

The second reason that I am unable to write any article on nut culture

in Quebec is because as far as I know there is no nut culture here. Most

of the trees I refer to were simply planted as ornamentals. I have never

been able to locate anyone who has taken any particular interest in

growing them for the nuts.

I would like very much to extend my knowledge on the subject by

attending your meeting at Poughkeepsie, New York, on August 28th to

30th, but unfortunately I will be absent in Nova Scotia on those dates.

Following your information I secured some literature on northern nut

culture and will look forward to receiving any further information along

this line that may be forthcoming.

Again thanking you for your courtesy and assuring you of my continued

interest, I am,

Yours very truly,

W. H. BRITTAIN

Vice-Principal,

Macdonald College of McGill University

Macdonald College, Quebec, Canada

Note: I believe that perhaps the things mentioned in his second

paragraph should be followed up.--H.L.S.

Pecans Produce Poorly in Middle Atlantic States

November 13, 1950

Dr. Lewis E. Theiss

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Dear Dr. Theiss:

Speaking of pecans, we have harvested the first crop this year here on

the station, from trees planted in 1932, of the varieties Indiana,

Greenriver, Busseron and Major. Even though these nuts were not

harvested until November 9 they are poorly filled. It seems that we just

cannot mature them here in an average season. Our trees have not grown

satisfactorily and although they may bloom, the nuts normally fail to

mature.

Our summers are not long enough and the day and night temperatures are

not high enough uniformly to satisfactorily produce pecans even in this

area.

Very truly yours,

H. L. CRANE

Principal Horticulturist,

Division of Fruit and Vegetable

Crops and Diseases

U. S. Plant Industry Station.

Beltsville, Maryland

~Editor's Note:~ Dr Crane's experience is exactly similar to my own. The

pecans in the grounds at my country home were well loaded with nuts this

year, 1950. I doubt if a single nut was half filled.--L. E. T.

Nut Tree Diseases in Europe and Turkey

November 17, 1950

Dr. Lewis E. Theiss

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Dear Dr. Theiss:

I have only recently returned from three and one-half months spent in

Europe, primarily on chestnut problems, as a consultant for the Economic

Cooperation Administration. The trip was made at the request and expense

of European interests, except while I was up in the Scandinavian

countries and at the 7th International Botanical Congress. I gave a

paper at the Congress, entitled "The world-wide spread of forest

diseases," in which chestnut blight received limited attention.

In Italy, chestnut blight, ~Endothia parasitica~, was first reported at

Genoa in 1938, although it started there much earlier. It is now widely

distributed here and there as far south as the Naples area. No confirmed

infections have been reported from Sicily, Sardinia, or French Corsica,

though inspection work has been very, very limited. In all the places

where I saw it, the disease was increasing rapidly, with numerous

recently-blighted trees. It is expected that the disease will ultimately

kill the 988,000 acres of coppice growth, which produces few nuts, and

the 1,111,500 acres of grafted orchards. The time of death of isolated

stands like the two islands and many other areas can be materially

decreased by careful inspection and removal of the earliest infections,

just as we have held the disease under control in the European chestnut

orchards in California. It is doubtful if this will be done however, in

spite of their large unemployment problem.

As the blight continues its rapid spread over Italy, the production of

nuts will steadily decrease. The Italian exports to this country will

decrease, and the market for the rapidly expanding production of Chinese

chestnuts in the eastern United States will improve. The Italian

foresters are growing large quantities of Chinese chestnuts which they

purchased in this country, but the difficulties of quickly

reestablishing a large nut industry are very great. This Bureau,

including Dr. Graves, has been sending pollen, scions, and plants of our

selections to help with this work. It is of vital importance to have a

sound economy in Italy to help prevent the Communists from taking over,

and loss of their forest and nut orchards and part of their oaks from

the blight will be a sad blow to their economy.

The chestnut blight fungus in Italy is attacking three important

European oaks, ~Quercus ilex~, ~Q. Pubescens~, and ~Q. sessiliflora~. These

are more important in some countries than chestnuts. For instance, Spain

has 3,705,000 acres of ~Q. ilex~ orchards, grown largely for acorn hog

feed. This will interest Dr. Smith. Possibly the disease may be less

destructive to oaks in other countries than I fear, my opinion being

based on the examination of only a limited number of diseased oaks in

Italy.

I assume you have heard that Mr. Bretz of our Division has found that

the oak wilt fungus has attacked some of our Chinese chestnuts in

Missouri. What it will amount to, no one knows. The oak wilt continues

to spread southward and eastward, and this year one infection was

reported by the State authorities on oaks in your own Pennsylvania.

In Switzerland, in Tessin province, which is along the Italian border,

the blight is spreading rapidly. The disease undoubtedly is in

Yugoslavia, as there is so much infection in nearby Italy, but I was not

in Yugoslavia. In Spain, there are several infections of blight that

came in on the original importations of chestnuts directly from Japan. I

made two trips into Spain and the authorities there have promised to do

everything possible to eradicate these small spot infections.

In Denmark, England, France, Germany, Portugal, and Turkey no blight had

been reported by the authorities with whom I conferred, but in most of

these countries very little inspection work has been conducted. Any

inspection for blight in southern Europe is complicated by the presence

of the ink root rot disease, which from a distance looks like the

blight. I remember one grafted orchard planting, in the Asia Minor part

of Turkey, where a large proportion of the trees were dead or dying,

with yellow leaves hanging, resembling the blight. Incidentally, here,

as at a number of other places in different countries, orchards, forest,

and nearby agricultural land was owned by the village itself.

In southern France I was impressed by a most serious and widely

distributed disease of Persian walnuts. Vigorously growing trees start

to decline and within a year or two they are dead. The French

authorities had no satisfactory explanation of the trouble. I informed

them that it looked a lot like trees killed by ~Phytophthora cinnamomi~,

the cause of the chestnut root and ink disease in America and Europe.

This fungus also attacks both Persian and black walnuts and other trees

(including apples) under certain conditions.

Sincerely,

G. F. GRAVATT

Senior Pathologist,

Division of Forest Pathology

U. S. Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md.

Nut Work of the Minnesota Experiment Station

March 27, 1950

Mr. Gilbert Becker,

Climax, Michigan

Dear Mr Becker:

I have heard that not long ago you sent out a questionnaire relative to

nut growing and grafting. Perhaps you would like to include the work

which has been going on at the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station

since 1918.

When this study was started, we had no information to give to many who

came to us with questions on nut growing possibilities in this state. At

no time have we attempted to promote commercial development as the

interest here seems to be almost wholly amateur.

Our first efforts, begun in 1918, were designed to test kinds and

varieties which could be grown in Minnesota. Black walnut varieties

such as Thomas, Ohio, Ten Eyck, Stabler and Miller were planted at

University Farm. Also sweet chestnuts Boone, Rochester, Cooper, Paragon,

Fuller and Progress were set out. Hickory varieties and hybrids planted

in 1918 and 1919 were Kirtland, Weiker, Stanley, Siers, Hales and

McCallister. We planted a few trees of the Franquette Persian walnut,

the Indiana, Niblack and Posey pecans and a few filberts such as Minnas

Zellernuss, Daviana, and Large Globe. Some seedling trees of the

shagbark hickory also were set out in 1918 and 1919.

To supplement this test somewhat similar collections were sent to

cooperators in what seemed to be favorable locations.

We had the usual difficulty in establishing these trees and winter

temperature eliminated all the pecans, sweet chestnuts, Persian, walnuts

and filberts. Some of the seedling hickories survived and have grown

vigorously but after thirty-two years have borne no nuts.

Since 1939 cooperative work has been under way with Professor R. E.

Hodgson at the Southeast Experiment Station, Waseca. Efforts there

mainly have been to establish varieties of black walnut and hickory by

grafting. Black walnut and hickory varieties have been grafted also at

the Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior.

The accompanying record is taken from a report for the Experiment

Station in 1949. It should tell you in brief the status of our

investigations at present.

Very truly yours,

W. G. BRIERLEY

University of Minnesota

Department of Agriculture

Division of Horticulture

Nature and Extent of Work Done this Year

All black walnut and hickory trees made fairly satisfactory growth in

1948 in spite of deficient rainfall. The "Gideon Seedling Hickories"

(~Carya laciniosa~) planted in 1945 have become established at Waseca,

Rochester, Lakeville, Mound and at the Fruit Breeding Farm.

Attempts to establish nut varieties by top-working on seedling trees

again met with poor success. At Waseca 5 of 14 hickory grafts and 4 of

25 black walnut grafts grew. At the Fruit Breeding Farm only 6 of 33

hickory grafts grew. In this case, the poor results were due in large

part to use of an asphalt grafting compound which injured the callus

tissue at the union. Better than usual success was obtained with black

walnuts as 19 of 37 grafts grew.

As in previous seasons, the best temperature for storage of scion wood

was 34 to 36 degrees F.

Major Results

The best black walnut varieties for Minnesota are Thomas, Ohio,

Stambaugh, Smith and Schwartz. Of these Thomas produces the best nuts,

but the tree is somewhat straggly in growth. The Ohio produces large

nuts of good quality and is by far the best tree in ornamental value. It

also is the hardiest of all varieties tested as it has shown no injury

during 16 winters. Of lesser value are Ten Eyck which apparently is not

fully hardy, and Mintle in which quality is poor here. Varieties which

have not shown sufficient merit to warrant recommendation here are

Stabler, Monterey, and Clark. Varieties which have not fruited are

Allen, Cochrane, Huber, Kraus and Myers.

Practical Application of Results or Public Benefits

Results obtained have been used frequently as basis for recommendations

relative to kinds and varieties for planting, and for grafting methods.

Scionwood of the better varieties has been distributed to interested

growers.

Progress of Work

Success with walnut grafts under all conditions during 16 years at the

Fruit Breeding Farm has averaged only 32 per cent. In individual seasons

success has varied from zero to 54 per cent.

Hickories not only are grafted with difficulty but also are very slow to

reach bearing age. No nuts have been produced as yet from the following

varieties grafted on the dates shown: Anthony (1939) Lingenfelter (1942)

Burlington (1944) Gerardi hican (1944) Miller (1947) Barnes (1948) Last

(1948) Marquette (1948) and Schinnerling (1948). Some seedling trees

planted in 1948-1949 have produced no nuts in 32 years.

Hickory varieties established at Waseca by grafting are Beaver (1939),

Fairbanks (1939), Burlington (1939), Anthony (1947), Billeau (1947),

Hagen (1947), Wilcox (1947), Last (1948). Marquette (1948) and Stratford

(1948). A tree of Hales planted in 1921, which grew very slowly for

several years has borne no nuts in 27 years. One tree of Fairbanks

grafted in 1939 bore a few nuts in 1944 but has not borne since then.

There has been a long-standing belief among horticulturists that grafts

of ~Carya ovata~, the shagbark hickory are incompatible on bitter hickory

~C. cordiformis~. At Waseca, grafts of Beaver, Burlington and Fairbanks

make in 1939 have healed completely and made excellent unions with the

bitter hickory stock. That the varieties named are of hybrid origin may

account for the compatibility apparent in this case.

Vegetarian, 93, and Bride, 60, Honeymoon Among Bananas, Nuts

MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 4--(UP)--A 93-year-old vegetarian and his 60-year old

bride settled down today for a honeymoon among the nuts and bananas they

say keep them young.

George Hebden Corsan and Lillian Armstrong, whose pert looks belie her

years, were married here Tuesday. Wedding guests were served orange

juice and coconut cream milk.

The bridegroom has been wintering here for the past 13 years. His home

is Echo Valley, Islington, Toronto. His wife retired last month after 30

years of teaching in Toronto public schools.

"I'm sure we'll be happy," Mrs. Corsan said. "We have mutual interests"

Both credit their youthfulness and agility to vegetarianism, drinking

gallons of fruit juices and staying outdoors as much as possible.

Corsan, whose sturdy 155 pounds are stretched on a six-foot frame, can

husk a coconut with his bare hands in less than two minutes, no mean

feat.

He operates a large experimental nut farm in Toronto, and has a 16-acre

tract just south of here where he grows seven varieties of bananas and

experiments with macadamia nuts, furnished him by the University of

Hawaii. He works the farm singlehanded.

Corsan says he taught another physical culturist, Bernarr MacFadden, to

swim in 1909 when he was an instructor at a Brooklyn YMCA. He says

swimming helps keep him in shape and takes a daily dip in the ocean.

The Corsans will spend their honeymoon right on the nut farm.

"We might have a few fights," he said. "But they won't last long. She's

too young to fight. And besides, she can outrun an English hare."

Broken Neck Fails to Halt Plans of "Youngster", 94

TORONTO, June 12--Physical Culturist George Hebden Corsan--just turned

94--says he is going to throw a birthday party Saturday, Right now he's

in the hospital recovering from a broken neck suffered when he fell 20

feet from a tree May 27.

Mr. Corsan--a vegetarian who once labeled medicine "a jumbled heap of

ignorance"--didn't want to go to the hospital at all. But doctors

thought he'd better, since the fracture was about like that suffered by

a man hanged on the gallows. He agreed to go after being assured the

visit would only be for X-rays.

Since he's been in the hospital Mr. Corsan has fared--over the protest

of dietitians--on nothing but orange juice. Yesterday he observed his

birthday by eating a banana and a little black bread.

Doctors said Mr. Corsan missed severing his spinal cord by a quarter

inch and had two skull fractures. To almost any other person, they said,

the injury would be fatal.

Mr. Corsan was married for the third time last January in

Florida.--Washington Evening Star, June 13, 1951.

Membership List

As of July 3, 1951

*Life member

**Honorary member

§Contributing member

+Sustaining member

ALABAMA

Deagon, Arthur, 128 Broadway, Birmingham. ~Farm in Penna.~

Hiles, Edward L., ~Hiles Auto Repair Shop~, Loxley

BELGIUM

R. Vanderwaeren, Bierbeekstraat, 310, ~Korbeek-Lo.~

CALIFORNIA

Armstrong Nurseries, 408 N. Euclid Avenue, Ontario

~General nurserymen, plant breeders~

Brand, George, U.S.N.G.B.C, Mob. 5, Port Hueneme

Buck, Ernest Homer, Three Arch Bay, 16 N. Portola, South Laguna

Deckard, L. A., 741 La Verne Avenue, Los Angeles 22

Flagg, Dr. Don P., 10365 Fairgrove Ave., Tujunga

Haig, Dr. Thomas R., 3021 Highland Avenue, Carlsbad, California

Linwood Nursery, Route No. 2, Box 476, Turlock

Parsons, Charles E., Felix Gillet Nursery, P. O. Box 1025, Nevada City.

~Nurseryman~

Pentler, Dr. C. F., 806 Arguello Blvd., San Francisco 18.

~American Friends Service Committee~

Pozzi, P. H., 2875 S. Dutton Ave., Santa Rosa. ~Brewery worker~, ~farmer~

Serr, E. F., Agr. Experiment Station, Davis. ~Associate Pomologist~

Welby, Harry S., 500 Buchanan Street, Taft. ~Private and Corp. Hort.~

CANADA

Brown, Alger, Route 1, Harley, Ontario. ~Farmer~

Collins, Adam H., 42 Seaton St., Toronto 2, Ont.

Cornell, R. S., R.R. No. 1, Byron, Ontario

Corsan, George H., Echo Valley, Toronto 18, Ontario. ~Nonagenarian.~

**Crath, Rev. Paul C., 299 Rosewell Ave., Toronto 12, Ontario

Crisp, Dr. Allan G., Suite 204, 160 Bloor St. W., Toronto, Ontario

English, H. A., Box 153, Duncan, B. C. ~Farmer~, ~fruit and nut grower~

Filman, O., Aldershot, Ontario. ~Fruit and veg. grower~

Gellatly, J. U., Box 19, Westbank, B. C. ~Plant breeder~, ~fruit grower~,

~nurseryman~

Goodwin, Geoffrey, Route No. 3, St. Catherines, Ontario. ~Fruit grower~

Harrhy, Ivor H., Route 1, Burgessville, Ont. ~Fruitgrower and poultry~

Housser, Levi, Route 1, Beamsville, Ontario. ~Fruit farmer~

*Neilson, Mrs. Ellen, 5 Macdonald Avenue, Guelph, Ont.

Papple, Elton E., Route 3, Cainsville, Ont.

Porter, Gordon, 258 McKay, Windsor, Ont. ~Chemist~

Smith, E. A., Sparta, Ont. Farmer

Snazelle, Robert, Forest Nursery, Route No. 5, Charlottetown, P. E. I.

~Nursery Supt.~

Short, J. R., 70 Wickstead Ave., Leaside, Ont.

Trayling, E. J., 509 Richards St., Vancouver, B. C. ~Jeweller~

Wagner, A. S., Delhi, Ont.

Walker, J. W., c/o McCarthy & McCarthy, 330 University Ave., Toronto, Ont.

Wharton, H. W., Route No. 2, Guelph, Ont. ~Farmer~

White, Peter, 30 Pear Ave., Toronto 5, Ont.

Willis, A. R., Route No. 1, Royal Oak, Vancouver Island, B. C.

~Accountant~

Woods, David M., 48 South Front St., West, Toronto, Ont. ~Vice President,

Gordon McKay, Ltd.~

Young, A. L., Brooks, Alta.

CONNECTICUT

Daniel, Paul C., Lakeville

**Deming, Dr. W. C., 141 Fern St., Hartford. (Summer address: Litchfield)

~Dean of the Association~

Frueh, Alfred J., Route 2, West Cornwall

Graves, Dr. Arthur H., 255 S. Main St., Wallingford.

~Consulting Pathologist, Conn. Agr. Expt. Station, New Haven, Conn.~

Henry, David, Blue Hills Farm, Route 2, Wallingford.

*Huntington, A. M., Stanerigg Farms, Bethel. ~Patron~

Lehr, Frederick L., 45 Elihu St., Hamden

*Newmaker, Adolph, Route No. 1. Rockville

Pratt, George D., Jr., Bridgewater

Risko, Charles, City Tobacco & Candy Co., 25 Crescent Ave., Bridgeport

White, George E., Route No. 2, Andover. ~Farmer~

DELAWARE

Brugmann, Elmer W., 1904 Washington St., Wilmington. ~Chemical Engineer~

Logue, R. F., Gen. Mgr., Andelot, Inc., 2098 du Pont Bldg., Wilmington

Wilkins, Lewis, Route 1, Newark. ~Fruit grower~

DENMARK

Granjean, Julio, Hillerod. (See New York.)

Knuth, Count F. M., Knuthenborg. Bandholm

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

American Potash Inst., Inc., 1155-16th St., N.W., Washington

Ford, Edwin L., 3634 Austin St., S.E., Washington

Kaan, Dr. Helen W., National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue,

Washington. ~Research Associate~

Reed, Mrs. Clarence A., 7309 Piney Branch Rd., N.W., Washington 12

ECUADOR, SOUTH AMERICA

Acosta Solis, Prof. M., Director del Departmento Forestal, Ministerio de

Economia, Quito. (~Exchange.~)

ENGLAND

Baker, Richard St. Barbe, The Gate, Abbotsbury, Weymouth, Dorset.

(~Founder, Men of The Trees.~)

The Gardeners Chronicle, London. (~Exchange.~)

FLORIDA

Avant, C. A., 940 N.W. 10th Ave., Miami ~Real Estate, Loans.~

(~Pecan orchard in Ga.~)

Estill, Gertrude, 153 Navarre Dr., Miami Springs.

(Summer address under Mich.)

GEORGIA

Edison, G. Clyde, 1700 Westwood Ave., S.W., Atlanta.

Hardy, Max, P. O. Box 128, Leeland Farms, Leesburg. ~Nurseryman~, ~farmer~

Hunter, Dr. H. Reid, 561 Lake Shore Dr. N.E., Atlanta. ~Teacher~,

~nut farmer~

Noland, S. C., Box 1747, Atlanta 1. ~Owner, Skyland Farms~

Wilson, William J., North Anderson Ave., Fort Valley.

~Peach and pecan grower~

HOLLAND

Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding. Herenstraat 25. Wageningen.

(~Exchange~)

HONG KONG

*Wang, P. W., c/o China Products Trading Corp., 6 Des Voeux Rd., Central

IDAHO

Baisch, Fred, 627 E. Main St., Emmett

Dryden, Lynn, Peck. ~Farmer~

Hazelbaker, Calvin, Route No. 1, Box 382, Lewiston

ILLINOIS

Albrecht, H. W., Delavan

Allen, Theodore R., Delavan. ~Farmer~

Andrew, Col. James W. (See under Washington)

Anthony, A. B., Route No. 3, Sterling. ~Apiarist~

Baber, Adin, Kansas

Best, R. B., Eldred. ~Farmer~

Blodgett, Thomas, 3610 Pine Grove Ave., Chicago 13

Blough, R. O., Route No. 3, Polo

Blyth, Colin R., Math. Dept., U. of I., Urbana. (Farm in northern Ontario)

*Boll, Herschel L., 2 Hort. Field Lab., Univ. of Ill., Urbana.

~Asst. in Pomology~

Brock, A. S., 1733 North McVicker Ave., Chicago 39

Churchill, Woodford M., 4323 Oakenwald Ave., Chicago 5

Colby, Dr. Arthur S., U. of Illinois, Urbana

Daum, Philip A., North Sixth St., Carrollton

Dietrich, Ernest, Route No. 2, Dundas. ~Farmer~

Dintelman, L. F., State Street Road, Belleville

Douglass, T. J., 309-1/2 North St., Normal

Fordtran, E. H., Route No. 2, Box 197-A, Palatine

Frey, Frank H., 2315 W. 108th Place, Chicago 43.

~Asst. to V. P., CRI & P RR.~

Frey, Mrs. Frank H., 2315 W. 108th Place, Chicago 43. ~Housewife~

Gerardi, Louis, Route No. 1., Caseyville. ~Nut and fruit nurseryman~

Grefe, Ben, Route No. 4, Box 22, Nashville. ~Farmer~

Heberlein, Edward W., Route No. 1, Box 72A, Roscoe

Helmle, Herman C., 526 S. Grand Ave., W., Springfield. ~Div. Eng.,

Asphalt Inst.~

Hockenyos, G. L., 213 E. Jefferson St., Springfield. ~Business man~

Jungk, Adolph E., Route No. 1, Jerseyville, Illinois

Kammarmeyer, Glenn, 1711 E. 67th St., Chicago 49

Kreider, Ralph, Jr., Route No. 1, Hammond. ~Farmer~

Langdoc, Mildred Jones (Mrs. Wesley W.) P. O. Box 136, Erie. ~Nursery~,

~farm~, ~housewife~

McDaniel, J. C., c/o Hort. Field Lab., U. of I., Urbana. ~Horticulturist.

(Sec'y of Ass'n.)~

McDaniel, J. C., Jr., Urbana

Oakes, Royal, Bluffs (Scott County)

Pray, A. Lee, 502 N. Main St., LeRoy

Robbins, W. J., 885 N. LaSalle St., Chicago 10. ~Insurance~

Sonnemann, W. F., Experimental Gardens, Vandalia. ~Lawyer~,

~farm operator~

Spencer, H. Dwight, 275 W. Decatur St., Decatur. ~Attorney~

Warnecke, Martin H., 714 First Avenue, Maywood

Whitford, A. M., Farina. ~Nurseryman~

Zethmayr, Gordon, Route No. 1, Box 130, West Chicago

INDIANA

Aster Nut Products, Inc., George Oberman, Mgr., 1004 Main St., Evansville

Bauer, Paul J., 123 S. 29th St., Lafayette

Bolten, Ferd, Route 3, Linton. ~Farmer, fruit grower.

(Carpathian walnut seeds.)~

Boyer, Clyde C., Nabb

Buckner, Dr. Doster, 421 W. Wayne St., Ft. Wayne 2.

~Physician and Surgeon~

Clark, C. M., C. M. Clark & Sons Nurseries, Route 2, Middletown

~Nurseryman~, ~fruit farmer~

Dooley, Kenneth R., Route No. 2, Marion. ~Gardener~

Eagles, A. E., Eagles' Orchards, Wolcottville. ~Walnut grower~,

~apple orchardist~

Eisterhold, Dr. John. A., 220 Southwest Riverside Drive, Evansville 8.

~Medical Doctor~

Fateley, Nolan W., 26 Central Avenue. Franklin. ~Auditor and cashier.

(Carpathian walnut seeds.)~

Glaser, Peter, Route No. 9, Box 328, Koening Road, Evansville

Grater, A. E., Route 2, Shipshewana.

§Johnson, Hjalmar W., Rt. 4, Valparaiso. ~V. P. Inland Steel Co.~

Pape, Edw. W., Route 2, Marion

Prell, Carl F., 1414 E. Colfax Avenue, South Bend 17

Richards, E. E., 2712 South Twyckenham Drive, South Bend.

~Studebaker Corp.~

Russell, A. M., Jr., 2721 Marine St., South Bend 14

Skinner, Dr. Chas. H., Rt. 1, Thorntown

Sly, Miss Barbara, Route No. 3, Rockport

Sly, Donald R., Route 3, Rockport. ~Nurseryman,~, ~nut tree propagator~

Wallick, Ford, Rt. 4, Peru

Ward, W. B., Horticulture Bldg., Purdue University, Lafayette.

~Ext. Horticulturist~, ~Vegetables~

Whitsel, Gilbert L., Jr., 515 S. 15th Street, Lafayette

Wichman, Robert P., Route No. 3, Washington. ~General farming~

Wilkinson, J. F., Indiana Nut Nursery, Rockport. ~Nurseryman~

IOWA

Berhow, Seward, Berhow Nurseries, Huxley

Boice, R. H., Route No. 1, Nashua. ~Farmer~

Cole, Edward P., 419 Chestnut Street, Atlantic

Ferguson, Albert B., Center Point. ~Nurseryman~

Ferris, Wayne, Hampton. ~President of Earl Ferris Nursery~

Huen, E. F., Eldora. ~Farmer~

Inter-State Nurseries, Hamburg. ~General nurserymen~

Iowa Fruit Growers Assn., W. H. Collins, Sec'y, State House,

Des Moines 19. ~Cooperative buying organization~

Kaser, J. D., Winterset. ~Farmer~

Knowles, W. B., Box 476, Manly

Kyhl, Ira M., Box 236, Sabula. ~Nut nurseryman~, ~farmer~, ~salesman~

Martazahn, Frank A., Route No. 3, Davenport. ~Farmer~

McLeran, Harold F., Mt. Pleasant. ~Lawyer~

Orr, J. Allen, 535 Frances Bldg., Sioux City 17

Rohrbacher, Dr. William, 811 East College Street, Iowa City.

~Practice of Medicine~ (~President of the NNGA.~)

Schlagenbusch Brothers, Route No. 2, Fort Madison. ~Farmers~

Snyder, D. C., Center Point. ~Nurseryman, nuts and general.~

Tolstead, W. L., Central College, Pella

Wade, Miss Ida May, Route No. 3, LaPorte City. ~Bookkeeper~

Watson, Vinton C., 106 E. Salem St., Indianola

Welch, H. S., Mt. Arbor Nurseries, Shenandoah

White, Herbert, Box 264, Woodbine. ~Rural Mail Carrier~

Williams, Wendell V., Route No. 1, Danville. ~Farmer~

KANSAS

Baker, Fred C., Troy. ~Entomologist~

Borst, Frank E., 1704 Shawnee Street, Leavenworth

Breidenthal, Willard J., Riverview State Bank, 7th and Central,

Kansas City. ~Bank President~

Funk, M. D., 612 W. Paramore Street, Topeka. ~Pharmacist~

Gray, Dr. Clyde, 1045 Central Avenue, Horton. ~Osteopathic Physician~

Harris, Ernest, Box 20, Wellsville. ~Farmer~

Leavenworth Nurseries, Carl Holman, Proprietor, Route No. 3, Leavenworth.

~Nut nurseryman~

Mondero, John, Lansing

Thielenhaus, W. F., Route No. 1, Buffalo. ~Retired postal worker~

Underwood, Jay, Riverside Nursery, Uniontown

KENTUCKY

Alves, Robert H., Nehi Bottling Company, Henderson

Armstrong, W. D., West Ky., Exp. Sta., Princeton. ~Horticulturist~

Magill, W. W., Horticulture Dept., U. of Ky., Lexington

Miller, Julian C., 220 Sycamore Drive, Paducah

Moss, Dr. C. A., Willlamsburg. ~Bank President~

Rouse, Sterling, Route No. 1, Box 70, Florence. ~Fruit grower~,

~nurseryman~

Tatum, W. G., Route 4, Lebanon. ~Commercial orchardist~

Tallaferro, Philip, Box 85, Erlanger

Usrey, Robert, Star Route, Mayfield

Walker, William W., Route No. 1, Dixie Highway, Florence

LOUISIANA

Hammar, Dr. Harald E., USDA Chemical Lab., 606 Court House, Shreveport

~Chemist~

Perrault, Mrs. Henry D., Route No. 1, Box 13, Natchitoches. ~Pecan grower~

MARYLAND

Case, Lynn B., Route 2, Box 208, Federalsburg

Crane, Dr. H. L., Bureau of Plant Industry Station, Beltsville.

~Principal Horticulturist, USDA.~

Eastern Shore Nurseries, Inc., P. O. Box 743, Easton. ~Chestnut growers~

Graff, George U., Harding Lane, Rt. 3. Rockville

Gravatt, Dr. G. F., Plant Industry Station, Beltsville.

~Research Forest Pathologist~

Hodgson, William C., Route No. 1, White Hall. ~Farmer~

Kemp, Homer S., (Proprietor) Bountiful Ridge Nurseries, Princess Anne

McCollum, Blaine, White Hall. ~Retired from Federal Government~

McKay, Dr. J. W., Plant Industry Station, Beltsville.

~Government Scientist~

+Negus, Mrs. Herbert, 4514 32nd Street, Mt. Rainier

Porter, John J., 1199 The Terrace, Hagerstown. ~Farm Owner~

Shamer, Dr. Maurice E., 3300 W. North Avenue, Baltimore 16. ~Physician~

MASSACHUSETTS

Babbit, Howard S., 221 Dawes Avenue, Pittsfield. ~Service station owner

and part time farmer~

Bradbury, H. G., Hospital Point, Beverly

Brown, Daniel L., Esq., 60 State Street, Boston

Bump, Albert H., P. O. Box 275, Brewster

Davenport, S. Lathrop, 24 Creeper Hill Road, North Grafton. ~Farmer~,

~fruit grower~

Fitts, Walter H., 39 Baker St., Foxboro. ~General foreman,

instrument company~

Kendall, Henry P., Moose Hill Farm, Sharon

Kerr, Andrew, Lock Box 242, Barnstable

La Beau, Henry A., North Hoosic Road, Williamstown. ~Stat. engineer~

O'Brien, Howard C., 25 Irvington Street, Boston 16

Rice, Horace J., 515 Main Street, Wilbraham. ~Attorney~

*Russell, Mrs. Newton H., 12 Burnett Avenue, South Hadley

Wellman, Sargent H., Esq., Windridge, Topsfield. ~Lawyer~

Weston Nurseries, Inc., Weston

Wood, Miss Louise B., Pocassett, Cape Cod

MICHIGAN

Ainsworth, Donald W., 5851 Mt. Elliott, Detroit 11

Andersen, Charles, Route No. 2, Box 326, Scottsville, ~Nurseryman~

Barlow, Alfred L., 13079 Flanders Avenue, Detroit 5

Becker, Gilbert, Climax

Boylan, P. B., Route No. 1, Cloverdale. ~Homesteader~

Bumler, Malcolm R., 2500 Dickerson, Detroit 15. ~Insurance trustee~

Burgart, Harry, Michigan Nut Nursery, Box 33, Union City. ~Nurseryman~

Burgess, E. H., Burgess Seed & Plant Company, Galesburg

Burr, Redmond M., 320 S. 5th Avenue, Ann Arbor. ~General Chairman, The

Order of Railroad Telegraphers, Pere Marquette District, C&O Ry. Co.~

Cook, Ernest A., M.D., c/o County Health Dept., Centerville

Corsan, H. H., Route No. 1, Hillsdale. ~Nurseryman~

Dennison, Clare, 4224 Avery, Detroit 8

Emerson, Ralph, 161 Cortland Avenue, Detroit 3

Estill, Miss Gertrude. (See under Florida, Summer Address: Route 4,

Box 762, Battle Creek)

Hackett, John C., 3321 Butterworth Rd., S.W., R. R. 5, Grand Rapids 6

Haseler, L. M., Route No. 4, Box 130 South Haven

Hagelshaw, W. J., Route No. 1, Box 394, Galesburg. ~Grain farmer~,

~contractor~

Hay, Francis H., Ivanhoe Place, Lawrence. ~Farmer~

**Kellogg, W. K., Battle Creek

Korn, G. J., 309 N. Church Street, Kalamazoo 11. ~Shop worker~

Lee, Michael, P. O. Box 16, Milford

Lemke, Edwin W., 2432 Townsend Ave., Detroit 14. ~Engineer~,

~nut orchardist~

McCarthy, Francis W., Box 392, Algonac

Miller, O. Louis, 417 N. Broadway, Cassopolis. ~Forester~

O'Rourke, Prof. F. L., Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton. ~Professor of

ornamental horticulture, Mich. State College~

Pickles, Arthur W., 760 Elmwood Avenue, Jackson

Prushek, E., Route No. 3, Niles. ~Plant breeding~

Sherman, L. Walter, 3308 Mackinaw St., Saginaw

Simons, Rev. R. E., Flat Rock

Somers, Lee, Route No. 1, Perrinton

Tate, D. L., 959 Westchester St., Birmingham

Ullrey, L. E., 1209 Cambridge Drive, Kalamazoo 27

MINNESOTA

Hodgson, R. E., Dept. of Agriculture, S.E. Experiment Station, Waseca

Tulare, Willis E., 300 3rd Avenue, S.E., Rochester

Weschcke, Carl, 96 S. Wabasha St., St. Paul. ~Proprietor Hazel Hills

Nursery Co.~

MISSISSIPPI

Gossard, A. C., U. S. Hort. Field Station, Route No. 6, Meridian.

~Associate Horticulturist, USDA~

Meyer, James R., Delta Branch Experiment Station, Stoneville.

~Cytogeneticist (cotton)~

MISSOURI

Bauch, G. D., Box 66, Farmington. ~Farm Forester~

Hay, Leander, Gilliam

Howe, John, Route No. 1, Box 4, Pacific

Huber, Frank J., Weingarten. ~Farmer~

James, George, James Pecan Farms, Brunswick

Logan, George F., Oregon

The M-F-D Co., 1305 Moreland Ave., Jefferson City

Nicholson, John W., Ash Grove. ~Farmer~

Ochs, C. Thurston, Box 291, Salem. ~Foreman in garment factory~

Richterkessing, Ralph, Route No. 1. St. Charles. ~Farmer~

Rose, Dr. D. K., 230 Linden, Clayton 5

Stark Bros. Nursery & Orchard Co., Attn. Mr. H. W. Guengerich, Louisiana

Wuertz, H. J., Route No. 1, Pevely

NEBRASKA

Brand, George. (See under California.)

Caha, William, 350 W. 12th, Wahoo

Hess, Harvey W., The Arrowhead Gardens, Box 209, Hebron

Sherwood, Jack, Nebraska City

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Demarest, Charles S., Lyme Center

Lahti, Matthew, Locust Lane Farm, Wolfeboro. ~Investment banker~

NEW JERSEY

Anderegg, F. O., Pierce Foundation, Raritan

Blake, Harold, Box 93, Saddle River

Bottoni, R. J., 41 Robertson Road, West Orange. ~President of Harbot

Die Casting Corp.~

Brewer. J. L., 10 Allen Place, Fair Lawn

Buckwalter, Mrs. Alan R., Route. No. 1, Flemington

Cox, Philip H., Jr., 30 Hyde Rd., Bloomfield

Cumberland Nursery, William Wells, Proprietor, Route No. 1, Millville.

~Nurserymen~

Donnelly, John, Mountain Ice Company, 51 Newark St., Hoboken

Dougherty, William M., Broadacres-on-Bedens, Box 425, Princeton

~Secretary, U. S. Rubber Co.~

Ellis, Mrs. Edward P., Strawberry Hill, Route No. 1, Box 137, Keyport

Kass, Leonard P., 82 E. Cliff St., Somerville

Lamatonk Nurseries, A. H. Yorks, Proprietor, Neshanic Station

Lippencott, J. C., 15 Mundy Ave., Spotswood

McDowell, Fred, 905 Ocean Avenue, Belmar

Parkinson, Philip P., 567 Broadway, Newark 4. ~Engineer and appraiser~

Ritchie, Walter M., Route No. 2, Box 122-R, Rahway

Rocker, Louis P., The Rocker Farm, Box 196; Andover. ~Farmer~

Sheffield, O. A., 283 Hamilton Place, Hackensack. ~Dunn & Bradstreet~

Sorg, Henry, Chicago Avenue, Egg Harbor City. ~Manufacturer~

Van Doren, Durand H., 310 Redmond Road., South Orange. ~Lawyer~

Williams, Herbert H., 106 Plymouth Ave., Maplewood

NEW MEXICO

Gehring, Rev. Titus, Box 177, Lumberton

NEW YORK

Barton, Irving Titus, Montour Falls. ~Engineer~

Bassett, Charles K., 2917 Main St., Buffalo. ~Manufacturer~

Beck, Paul E., Beck's Guernsey Dairy, Transit Road, East Amherst.

~Dairy Executive~

Benton, William A., Wassaic. ~Farmer, and Sec'y, Mutual Insurance Co.~

Bernath, Stephen, Bernath's Nursery, Route No. 3, Poughkeepsie.

~Nurseryman~

Bernath, Mrs. Stephen, Route 3, Poughkeepsie

Bixby, Henry D., East Drive, Halesite, L. I. ~Executive V.P., American

Kennel Club, N. Y. City~

Brook, Victor, 171 Rockingham Street, Rochester 7. ~Sales Engineer~

Brooks, William G., Monroe. ~Nut tree nurseryman~

Bundick, Clarkson U., 35 Anderson Ave., Scarsdale. ~Mechanical engineer~

Caldwell, David H., N. Y. State College of Forestry, Syracuse. ~Instr.

in wood technology~

Carter, George, 428 Avenue A, Rochester 5

Cassina, Augustus, Valatie, Columbia County

Feil, Harry, 1270 Hilton-Spencerport Road, Hilton. ~Building contractor~

Ferguson, Donald V., L. I. Agr. Tech. Institute, Farmingdale

Flanigen, Charles F., 16 Greenfield St., Buffalo 14. ~Executive manager~

Freer, H. J., 20 Midvale Rd., Fairport. ~Typewriter sales and service~

Fribance, A. E., 139 Elmsdorf Ave., Rochester 11

Glazier, Henry S., Jr., 1 South William St., New York 4

Graham, S. H., Bostwick Road, Route No. 5, Ithaca. ~Nurseryman~

Granjean, Julio, c/o K. E. Granjean, 9406 6th Ave., Forest Hills

Gressel, Henry, Route 2, Mohawk. ~Retired chief lock operator,

N. Y. S. Barge Canal~

Hasbrouck, Walter, Jr., 19 Grove St., New Paltz. ~Post office clerk~

Hill, Francis S., Sterling. ~Letter carrier on rural route~

Iddings, William A., 1931 Park Place. Brooklyn 33

Irish, G. Whitney, Fruitlands, Route No. 1, Valatie. ~Farmer~

Kettaneh, F. A., 745 Fifth Ave., New York 22

Knipper, George M., 333 Chestnut Ridge Rd., Churchville

Knorr, Mrs. Arthur, 15 Central Park, West, Apt. 1406, New York

Kraai, Dr. John, Fairport. ~Physician~

Larkin, Harry H., 189 Van Rennsselaer Street, Buffalo 10

*Lewis, Clarence (Retired.)

Lowerre, James, Route 3, Middletown

*MacDaniels, Dr. L. H. Cornell University. Ithaca. ~Head, Dept.

of Floriculture and Ornamental Hort.~

Miller, J. E., Canandaigua. ~Nurseryman.~

Mitchell, Rudolph, 125 Riverside Drive, New York 24. ~Mechanical engineer~

*Montgomery, Robert H., 1 E., 44th Street, New York

Mossman, Dr. James K., Black Oaks, Ramapo

Newell, Palmer F., Lake Road, Route No. 1. Westfield

Owen, Charles H., Sennett. ~Superintendent of Schools~

Pura, John J., Green Haven, Stormville

Salzer, George, 169 Garford Road, Rochester 9. ~Milkman~,

~chestnut tree grower~

Schlegel, Charles P., 990 South Ave., Rochester 7

Schlick, Frank, Munnsville

Schmidt, Carl W., 180 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo

Shannon, J. W., Box 90, Ithaca

Sheffield, Lewis J., c/o Mrs. Edna C. Jones, Townline Road, Orangeburg

Slate, Prof. George L., Experiment Station, Geneva. ~Fruit Breeder~

Smith, Gilbert L., Benton & Smith Nut Tree Nursery, Route 2, Millerton.

~Nurseryman~, ~retired teacher~

Smith, Jay L., Chester. ~Nut tree nurseryman~

Spahr, Dr. Mary B., 116 N. Geneva St., Ithaca

Steiger, Harwood, Red Hook. ~Artist-designer~

+Szego, Alfred, 77-15 A 37th Avenue, Jackson Heights, New York

Timmerman, Karl G., 123 Chapel St., Fayetteville

Wadsworth, Willard E., Route No. 5, Oswego

Wheeler, Robert C., 36 State Street, Albany

Windisch, Richard P., c/o W. E. Burnet Company, 11 Wall St., New York 5

*Wissman, Mrs. F. De R. ~(Retired.)~

NORTH CAROLINA

Brooks, J. R., Box 116, Enka

Dunstan, Dr. R. T., Greensboro College, Greensboro

Finch, Jack R., Bailey. ~Farmer~

Parks, C. H., Route No. 2, Asheville. ~Mechanic~

NORTH DAKOTA

Bradley, Homer L., Long Lake Refuge, Moffit. ~Refuge Manager~

OHIO

Ackerman, Lester, Route No. 3, Ada

Glen Helen Department, Antioch College, Yellow Springs

Barden, C. A., 215 Morgan Street, Oberlin. ~Real Estate~

Beede, D. V., Route No. 3, Lisbon

Bitler, W. A., R. F. D. I, Shawnee Road, Lima. ~General contractor~

Borchers, Perry E., 412 W. Hillcrest Ave., Dayton 6

Brewster, Lewis, Route No. 1, Swanton. ~Vegetable grower~

Bridgewater, Boyd E., 68 Cherry St., Akron. ~V. P. Bridgewater

Machine Co.~

Bungart, A. A., Avon

Cinadr, Mrs. Katherine, 13514 Coath Ave., Cleveland 20. ~Housewife~

Clark, Richard L., 1517 Westdale Rd., South Euclid 21. ~Sales manager~

Cook, H. C., Route No. 1, Box 125, Leetonia

Cornett, Charles. L., R. R. Perishable Inspection Agency, 27 W. Front St.,

Cincinnati. ~Inspector~

Craig, George E., Dundas (Vinton County). ~Fruit and nut grower~

Cranz, Eugene F., Mount Tom Farm, Ira

Cunningham, Harvey E., 420 Front Street, Marietta

Daley, Jame R., Route No. 3, Foster Park Road, Amherst. ~Electrician~

Davidson, John, 234 East Second Street, Xenia. ~Writer~

Davidson, Mrs. John, 234 East Second Street, Xenia

Diller, Dr. Oliver D., Dept. of Forestry, Ohio Exp. Sta., Wooster

Distelhorst, P. E., 3532 Douglas Road, Toledo 6

Dowell, Dr. Lloyd L., 529 North Ave., N. E., Massillon. ~Physician~

Farr, Mrs. Walter, Route No. 1, Kingsville

Garden Center of Greater Cleveland, 11190 East Blvd., Cleveland

Gerber, E. P., Kidron

Gerstenmaier, John A., 13 Pond S. W., Massillon. ~Letter carrier~

Goss, C. E., 922 Dover Avenue, Akron 20

Grad, Dr, Edward A., 1506 Chase Street, Cincinnati 23

Hansley, C. F., Box 614, Sugar Grove. ~Contractor~

Hawk & Son Nursery, Route No. 2, Beach City. ~Chestnut trees~

Hill, Dr. Albert A., 4187 Pearl Road, Cleveland

Hornyak, Louis, Route No. 1, Wakeman

Howard, James R., 2908 Fleming Road, Middletown

Irish, Charles F., 418 E. 105th St., Cleveland 8. ~Arborist~

Jacobs, Homer L., Davey Tree Expert Company, Kent

Kappel, Owen, Bolivar

Kerr, S. E., M. D., Route No. 1, North Lawrence

Kintzel, Frank W., 2506 Briarcliff Ave., Cincinnati 13 ~Principal~,

~Cincinnati public schools~

Laditka, Nicholas G., 5322 Stickney Ave., Cleveland 9. ~Electrician~

Leaman, Paul Y., Route No. 1, Creston

Lorenz, R. C., 121 North Arch Street, Fremont

Machovina, Paul E., 1228 Northwest Blvd., Columbus 12. ~College professor~

McKinster, Ray, 1632 South 4th Street, Columbus 7

Meister, Richard T., ~Editor, American Fruit Grower~, Willoughby

Metzger, A. J., 724 Euclid Avenue, Toledo 5

Oches, Norman M., R. D. 1, Brunswick. ~Mechanical Engineer~

Osborn, Frank C., 4040 W. 160th St., Cleveland 11. ~Tool and die maker~

Page, John H., Box 34, Dundas (Vinton County)

Pataky, Christ, Jr., 492 Hickory Lane, Route No. 4, Mansfield.

~Produce market~, ~grocer~

Pattison, Aletheia, 5 Dexter Place, E. W. N., Cincinnati 6

Pomerene, Walter H., Route No. 3, Coshocton. ~Agricultural Engineer,

Hydrological Research Station~

Purdy, Clyde W., 19 Public Square, Mt. Vernon

Ranke, William, Route No. 1, Amelia

Roberts, J. Pearl, Rt. 3, Freeport

Rummel, E. T., 16613 Laverne Avenue, Cleveland 11. ~Sales manager~

Schoenberger, L. Roy, Green Pines Farm, Route No. 2, Nevada

Seas, D. Edward, 721 South Main Street, Orrville

Sebring, R. G., 1227 Lincoln Road, Columbus

Shelton, Dr. Elbert M., 1468 W. Clifton Blvd., Lakewood 7

Shessler, Sylvester M., Genoa. ~Farmer~

Silvis, Raymond E., 1725 Lindbergh Avenue, N. E., Massillon. ~Realty~

Smith, Sterling A., 630 W. South Street, Vermilion. ~Telegrapher, NYC RR

(Treasurer of the Assn.)~

Spears, Ernest G., 4326 Forest Ave., Norwood 6

Spring Hill Nurseries Company, Tipp City. ~General nurserymen~

Steinbeck, A. P., East Nimisilla Rd., North Canton. ~Rubber worker,

Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.~

Stocker, C. P., Lorain Products Corp., 1122 F. Street, Lorain

Stolz, Thomas O., 334 Claranna Ave., Dayton 9

Thiesing, J. R., 113 S. Washington, New Bremen

Thomas, Fred, Route No. 1, Bedford Road, Masury

Toops, Herbert A., 1430 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus 12. ~College Professor~

Underwood, John, Route No. 4, Urbana

Urban, George, 4518 Ardendale Road, South Euclid 21. ~Mayor~

Van Voorhis, J. F., 215 Hudson Avenue, Apt. B-1, Newark

Von Gundy, Clifford R., R. F. D. No. 8, Cincinnati 30

Walker, Carl F., 2851 E. Overlook Rd., Cleveland 18. ~Consulting engineer~

Weaver, Arthur W., R.F.D., Box 196B, Cass Rd., Maumee

*Weber, Harry R., Esq. (Deceased.)

Weber, Mrs. Martha R., Route No. 1, Mahawe Farm, Cleves

Willett, Dr. G. P., Elmore

Williams, Harry M., 221 Grandon Road, Dayton 9. ~Engineer~

Wischhusen, J. F., 15031 Shore Acres Drive, N. E., Cleveland 10

Yates, Edward W., 3108 Parkview Avenue, Cincinnati 13.

~Mechanical engineer~

Yoder, Emmet, Smithville

OKLAHOMA

Butler, Roy, Route No. 2, Hydro. ~Farmer~, ~cattleman~

Cross, Prof. Frank B., Dept. of Horticulture, Oklahoma A&M College,

Stillwater.

~Teaching and Experiment Station Work~

Gray, Geoffrey A., 1628 Elm Ave., Bartlesville

Hartman, Peter E., 3002 S. Boston Pl., Tulsa 5. ~Nurseryman~

Hirschi's Nursery (A. G. Hirschi), 414 North Robinson, Oklahoma City

~Dry cleaning business, nurseryman~

Hughes, C. V., Route No. 3, Box 614, 5600 N. W. 16th Street, Oklahoma City

Keathly, Jack, Marland. ~Farmer~

Kissick, E. A., State Board of Agr., 122 State Capitol Bldg., Oklahoma

City. ~Marketing Specialist~

Meek, E. B., Route 2, Wynnewood

Pulliam, Gordon, 1605 Osage Ave., Bartlesville

Scales, Charles D., 3200 N. W. 26th St., Oklahoma City 7

OREGON

Miller, John E., Treasuredale, Route No. 1, Box 312-A, Oswego

Pearcy, Harry L., Route 2. Box 190, Salem. ~H. L. Pearcy Nursery

Co. (Nut trees.)~

PENNSYLVANIA

Allaman, R. P., Route 86, Harrisburg. ~Farm superintendent~

Amsler, E. W., 707 Main St., Clarion

Anthony, Roy D., 215 Hillcrest Ave., State College. ~Tree Crops Advisor,

Pa. Dept. of Agr.~

Arensberg, Charles F. C., First Nat'l Bank Bldg., Pittsburgh 22

~(Chinese chestnut seed grower.)~

Banks, H. C., Route No. 1, Hellertown

Beard, H. K., Route No. 1, Sheridan. ~Insurance agent~

Beck, Dr. William M., 200 Race St., Sunbury

Berst, Charles B., 11 W. 8th Street, Erie. ~Inspector, Lord Mfg. Co.,

Erie, Pa.~

Bowen, John C., Route No. 1, Macungie

Brown, Morrison, Ickesburg

Buckwalter, Geoffrey R., c/o F. H. Levey Co., Inc., 1223 Washington Ave.,

Philadelphia 47

Clarke, William S., Jr., P. O. Box 167, State College

Colwell, Dr. Frederick A., R.F.D. No. 1, Collegeville

Damask, Henry, 1632 Doyle Street, Wilkinsburg 21. ~Telephone man~

Ebling, Aaron L., Route No. 2, Reading

Etter, Fayette, P. O. Box 57, Lemasters. ~General foreman for

an electric company~

Gage, Charles K., 1429 Newman Road, Havertown

Gardner, Ralph D., 4428 Plymouth St., Harrisburg.

~Assistant State Fire Marshal~

Good, Orren S., 316 N. Fairview Street, Lock Haven. ~Retired~

Gorton, F. B., Route No. 1, East Lake Road, Harborcreek.

~Electrical contractor~

Hammond, Harold, 903 South Poplar Street, Allentown

Hershey, John W., Route No. 1, Downingtown. ~Nurseryman~

Hostetter, L. K., Route No. 3, Lancaster. ~Farmer~, ~black walnut grower~

Hughes, Douglas, 1230 East 21st Street, Erie

Johnson, Robert F., 1630 Greentree Road, Pittsburgh 20

Jones, Mildred M. (See Mrs. Langdoc--under Illinois)

Jones, Dr. Truman W., Walnut Grove Farm, Parksburg

Kaufman, Mrs. M. M., Box 69, Clarion

Knouse, Charles W., Colonial Park, Harrisburg. ~Coal dealer~

Laboski, George T., Route No. 1, Harborcreek. ~Fruit grower

and nurseryman~

Leach, Will, 406-410 Scranton Life Bldg., Scranton 3. ~Lawyer~

Mattoon, H. Gleason, Box 304, Narberth. ~Consultant in Arborculture~

McKenna, Philip M., P. O. Box 186, Latrobe

Mecartney, J. Lupton, 918 W. Beaver Ave., State College. ~Pomologist~

Miller, Elwood B., Mill and Chapel Sts., Hazleton

Miller, Robert O., 3rd and Ridge Streets, Emmaus

Moyer, Philip S., 80-82 U. S. F. & G. Bldg., Harrisburg. ~Attorney~

Niederriter, Leonard, 1726 State Street, Erie. ~Merchant~

Nonnemacher, H. M., Box 204, Alburtis. ~Line foreman, Bell Tel.

Co. of Pa.~

Ranson, Flavel, 728 Monroe Avenue, Scranton. ~Farmer~

Reidler, Paul G., Ashland. ~Manufacturer of textiles~

Rick, John, 438 Penna. Sq., Reading. ~Fruit grower and merchant~

Schaible, Percy, Upper Black Eddy. ~Laborer~

Scott, J. Lewis. 5-A Camberwell Drive, R.F.D. No. 2, Pittsburgh 15

Shade, Earl L., 1027 E. 26th St., Erie

Sherman, L. Walter. (See under Michigan.)

Smith, Dr. J. Russell, 550 Elm Ave., Swarthmore. ~Retired teacher, writer

and nurseryman~

Stewart, E. L., Pine Hill Farms Nursery, Route No. 2, Homer City

Theiss, Dr. Lewis E., 110 University Ave., Lewisburg. ~Retired professor~

Thompson, Howard A., 311 West Swissvale Ave., Pittsburgh 18

Twist, Frank S., Box 127, Northumberland. ~Salesman~

Waite, Knighton V., M. D., Renton

Washick, Dr. Frank A., S. W., Welsh & Veree Roads, Philadelphia 11.

~Surgeon~

Weaver, William S., Weaver Orchards, Macungie

Weinrich, Whitney, P. O. Box 225, Wallingford. ~Chemical engineer~

Wister, John C., Scott Foundation, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore.

~Horticulturist~

Wright, Ross Pier, 235 W. 6th Street, Erie. Manufacturer

Zimmerman, Mrs. G. A., R. D., Linglestown

RHODE ISLAND

Allen, Philip, 178 Dorance Street, Providence

SOUTH CAROLINA

Bregger, John T., Clemson. ~Research Supervisor (Soil Conservation),

Orchard Erosion Investigations~

Gordon, G. Henry, 13-1/2 Main St., Union. ~Returned Mariner~

SOUTH DAKOTA

Richter, Herman, Madison. ~Farmer~

TENNESSEE

Alpine Forest Reserve, c/o J. Edwin Carothers, Alpine

Boyd, Harold B., M. D., 3418 Waynoka St., Memphis 11. ~Physician~

Chase, Spencer, T. V. A., Norris. ~Horticulturist~

Garrett, Dr. Sam Young, 1902 Hayes St., Nashville. ~Surgeon~

Holdeman, J. E., 855 N. McNeil St., Memphis 7

Howell Nurseries, Sweetwater. ~Ornamental and chestnut nurserymen~

McDaniel, J. C. (See under Illinois)

Meeks, Hamp, c/o Jackson Elec. Dept., Jackson. ~Electrical Engineer~

Murphy, H. O., 12 Sweetbriar Avenue, Chattanooga. ~Fruit grower~

Richards, Dr. Aubrey, Whiteville. ~Physician~

Roark, W. F., Malesus. ~Farmer~, ~chestnut grower~

Robinson, W. Jobe, Route No. 7, Jackson. ~Farmer~

Sammons, Julius, Jr., Pecan Row Farm, Whiteville. ~Farmer~, ~orchardist~

Saville, Chris, 118 Church St., Greeneville

Shipley, Mrs. E. D., 3 Century Court, Knoxville 16. ~Housewife~

Smathers, Rev. Eugene, Calvary Church, Big Lick. Minister, farmer

Southern Nursery & Landscape Co., Attn. Hubert Nicholson, Winchester.

~General nurserymen~

TEXAS

Arford, Charles A., Box 1230, Dalhart. ~R. R. engineer~,

~amateur horticulturist~

Brison, Prof. F. R., Dept, of Horticulture, A. & M. College, College

Station

Florida, Kaufman, Box 154, Rotan

Kidd, Clark, Arp Nursery Co., P. O. Box 867, Tyler. ~Nut nurseryman~

Winkler, Andrew, Route 1, Moody. ~Farmer and pecan grower~

UTAH

Petterson, Harlan D., 2076 Jefferson Avenue, Ogden. ~Highway engineer~

VERMONT

Aldrich, A. W., R.F.D. No. 3, Springfield

Collins, Joseph N., Route No. 3, Putney. ~Civil engineer~, ~farmer~

~Ellis, Zenas H., Fair Haven. Perpetual member, "In Memoriam."~

Holbrook, F. C., Scott Farm, Brattleboro

VIRGINIA

Acker Black Walnut Corp., Box 263, Broadway. ~Walnut processors~

Burton, George L., 722 College Street, Bedford

Curthoys, George A., P. O. Box 34, Bristol

Dickerson, T. C., 316-56th Street, Newport News. ~Statistician~, ~farmer~

Dudley, Charles L., Glen Wilton

Gibbs, H. R. Linden. ~Carpenter~, ~wood worker~

Gunther, Eric F., Route No. 1, Box 31, Onancock. ~Retired business man~

Lee, Dr. Henry, 806 Medical Arts Building, Roanoke 11

Narten, Perry F., 6110 N. Washington Blvd., Arlington 5

Pinner, Henry, P. O. Box 155, Suffolk

Stoke, H. F., 1436 Watts Avenue N. W., Roanoke

Stoke, Mrs. H. F., 1436 Watts Avenue, N. W., Roanoke

Stoke, Dr. John H., 21 Highland Avenue, S. E., Roanoke 13. ~Chiropractor~

Thompson, B. H., Harrisonburg. ~Manufacturer of nut crackers~

WASHINGTON

Andrew, Col. James W., Hqts. 39 Wing, A.P.O. 942 c/o P. M., Seattle.

(Farm in Illinois.)

Bartleson, C. J., Box 25, Chattaroy. ~Office worker~

Brown, H. B., Greenacres

Bush, Carroll D., Grapeview. ~Chestnut grower and shipper~, ~nurseryman~

Denman, George L., East 1319 Nina Avenue, Spokane 10. ~Dairyman~

Eliot, Craig P., P. O. Box 158, Shelton. ~Electrical engineer~,

~part time farmer~

Erkman, John O., Apt. 85, 1219 Washington Way, Richland. ~Physicist~

Kling, William L., Route No. 2, Box 230, Clarkson

Latterell, Miss Ethel, 408 N. Flora Rd., Greenacres. ~Greenhouse worker~

Linkletter, Frank D., 115 4th Ave. North, Seattle 9. ~Retired~

Naderman, G. W., Route 1, Box 381, Olympia. ~Caretaker of summer resort~

Ross, Vevel C., 4025 Rucker Ave., Everett

Shane Brothers, Vashon

Shepard, Will, Chelan Falls

Tuttle, Lynn, Nursery, The Heights, Clarkston. ~Nut nurseryman~

WEST VIRGINIA

Cannaday, Dr. John E., Charleston General Hospital, Charleston 25.

~Physician~

Engle, Blaine W., Mutual Fire Ins. Co. of W. Va., Goff Bldg., Clarksburg

Frye, Wilbert M., Pleasant Dale. ~Retired~

Gold Chestnut Nursery, c/o Mr. Arthur A. Gold, Cowen. Chestnut nurseryman

Haines, Earl C., Shanks

Long, J. L., Box 491, Princeton. ~Civil engineer~

Mish, Arnold F., Inwood. ~Associational farmer~

Reed, Arthur M., Moundsville. ~Proprietor, Glenmount Nurseries~

WISCONSIN

Ladwig, C. F., 2221 St. Laurence, Beloit. ~Grocer and (hobby) farmer~

Mortensen, M. C., 2117 Slauson Avenue, Racine

Raether, Robert, Route No. 1, Augusta (Eau Claire County)

Subscribers and Standing Library Orders

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Library, 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn 25, N.

Y.

Clemson College Library, Clemson, South Carolina.

Cleveland Public Library, Leta E. Adams, Order Librarian, 325 Superior

Avenue, Cleveland 14, Ohio.

Connecticut Agr. Exp. Sta., Genetics Dept., 123 Huntington St., New

Haven 11, Conn.

Cornell University, College of Agriculture Library, Ithaca, New York.

Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward Avenue, Detroit 2, Michigan.

University of Maine (Library), Orono, Maine.

Library, University of Miami, Coral Gables 34, Florida.

Library, University of New Hampshire, Durham, N. H.

Oregon State College Library, Corvallis, Oregon.

Peachey, Enos D., P. O. Box 22, Belleville, Pennsylvania.

Rhode Island State College, Library Dept., Green Hall, Kingston, Rhode

Island.

Rutgers University, Agricultural Library, Nichol Avenue, New Brunswick,

N. J.

St. Louis Public Library, Olive, 13th and 14th Streets, St. Louis,

Missouri.

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Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Main Library), Auburn, Alabama.

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Carolina.

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