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According to Mendel's law a part of 

 the progeny will resemble the parents, 

 and a part will be entirely new, differ- 

 ent from anything that has ever been 

 seen before. For hybridizing experi- 

 ments I have twenty-six kinds of chest- 

 nuts alone, from different parts of the 

 world, but my favorite family consists 

 of the hickories. There are man)- kinds 

 of walnuts, hazels, beeches and other 

 nut trees under experimental cultiva- 

 tion." 



As we stood on the ledge overlook- 

 ing the river, the Doctor called my 

 attention to a Cypripedium in seed. 

 "So," I remarked, "you do take interest 

 in other things besides nut-bearing 

 trees." 



"Yes," he replied. "I have always 

 been an enthusiastic student of natural 

 history and have a fair running knowl- 

 edge of botany, geology and general 

 zoology, so that all of the natural feat- 

 ures of the place have a special interest. 

 I enjoy making observations of the 

 wild animals and birds of the woods, 

 the fishes of the stream, and the insects 

 that make trouble or that are bene- 

 ficial. A snake or a spider is never 

 killed just because it is a snake or a 

 spider." 



Emerging from the woods, we 

 paused at the spring to get a cupful of 

 the clear water, so cold that it seemed 

 as if iced, and then we followed the 

 narrow path that like a scout-trail lead 

 us over the hill. As we went I thought 



A JAPANESE WALNUT. 



The tree, seven years old, is over twenty feet high, 



with tropical leaves a yard long. Observe the 



mosquito netting bag a little to the lower left 



of the center. 



to profit by his medical knowledge, and 

 inquired, "Are you and I naturalists 

 because the love of nature is 'in our 



blood,' a remnant of our 



savage 



and 



A BUNCH OF SURPRISES WITHIN THE BAG. 

 Siebold walnut hybridized with pecan hickory. Each nut will grow- some new kind of tree never 



seen before. 



