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  Cordial 
  replies 
  have 
  been 
  received 
  from 
  M. 
  B. 
  Cmnmings, 
  Secre- 
  

   tary 
  of 
  the 
  Vermont 
  Horticultural 
  Society 
  ; 
  from 
  Le 
  Roy 
  Cady, 
  Chief 
  

   of 
  the 
  Division 
  of 
  Horticulture, 
  Minnesota 
  Agricultural 
  Experiment 
  

   Station 
  ; 
  and 
  from 
  J. 
  H. 
  Foster, 
  Professor 
  of 
  Forestry, 
  New 
  Hampshire 
  

   Agricultural 
  College. 
  

  

  Fifty 
  postal 
  card 
  reminders 
  of 
  this 
  meeting 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  members 
  

   and 
  others 
  a 
  week 
  ago. 
  

  

  The 
  secretary 
  has 
  also 
  made 
  investigation 
  by 
  correspondence 
  on 
  

   the 
  hickory 
  bark 
  beetle 
  and 
  the 
  identity 
  of 
  Juglans 
  mandshurica. 
  

  

  The 
  response 
  from 
  all 
  communications 
  to 
  the 
  various 
  officials 
  of 
  the 
  

   Department 
  of 
  Agriculture 
  at 
  Washington 
  has 
  been 
  prompt, 
  cordial, 
  

   interesting 
  and 
  helpful. 
  This 
  should 
  certainly 
  be 
  very 
  encouraging, 
  if 
  

   encouragement 
  is 
  needed, 
  coming 
  from 
  men 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  far-seeing 
  as 
  to 
  

   the 
  needs 
  for, 
  and 
  the 
  possibilities 
  of, 
  nut 
  culture. 
  Prof. 
  Frederick 
  V. 
  

   Coville 
  is 
  conducting 
  experiments 
  in 
  rooting 
  hickory 
  cuttings 
  sent 
  by 
  

   the 
  secretary. 
  Prof. 
  Walter 
  Swingle 
  offers 
  his 
  cooperation 
  in 
  experi- 
  

   ments 
  in 
  propagation. 
  

  

  The 
  general 
  correspondence 
  received 
  by 
  the 
  secretary 
  shows 
  an 
  in- 
  

   terest 
  and 
  an 
  enthusiasm 
  that 
  reveals 
  the 
  growing 
  appreciation 
  of 
  the 
  

   importance 
  of 
  the 
  purposes 
  for 
  which 
  this 
  association 
  stands. 
  

  

  (The 
  following 
  figures 
  are 
  brought 
  up 
  to 
  date 
  of 
  going 
  to 
  press.) 
  

  

  Eighteen 
  of 
  our 
  60 
  members 
  are 
  from 
  New 
  York, 
  8 
  from 
  Connecti- 
  

   cut, 
  6 
  from 
  Pennsylvania, 
  4 
  from 
  New 
  Jersey 
  and 
  Illinois, 
  3 
  from 
  the 
  

   District 
  of 
  Columbia, 
  2 
  each 
  from 
  Indiana, 
  Virginia 
  and 
  Minnesota, 
  and 
  

   one 
  each 
  from 
  Massachusetts, 
  Ohio, 
  Georgia; 
  Louisiana, 
  Florida, 
  Col- 
  

   orado. 
  Kentucky, 
  Michigan, 
  Oklahoma, 
  Panama 
  and 
  Canada. 
  Thus 
  

   seventeen 
  states, 
  the 
  District 
  of 
  Columbia, 
  Panama 
  and 
  Canada 
  are 
  

   represented 
  in 
  our 
  membership. 
  

  

  Eight 
  of 
  our 
  members 
  are 
  women, 
  one 
  of 
  them 
  a 
  life 
  member, 
  nine 
  

   are 
  professional 
  nurserymen, 
  eight 
  are 
  physicians, 
  six 
  are 
  connected 
  

   with 
  educational 
  institutions, 
  three 
  are 
  lawyers, 
  five 
  agriculturists, 
  two 
  

   at 
  least 
  are 
  capitalists, 
  and 
  all 
  expect 
  to 
  be, 
  two 
  are 
  in 
  literature 
  and 
  

   there 
  are 
  one 
  each 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  : 
  clergyman, 
  painter, 
  insurance, 
  sec- 
  

   retary, 
  railroads, 
  senator. 
  

  

  The 
  national 
  association 
  has 
  273 
  members 
  of 
  whom 
  52 
  are 
  from 
  

   the 
  northern 
  states. 
  We 
  ought 
  to 
  have 
  all 
  of 
  these. 
  

  

  The 
  secretary 
  is 
  keeping 
  a 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  scattered 
  articles, 
  com- 
  

   munications 
  to 
  agricultural 
  journals 
  and 
  other 
  literature 
  relating 
  to 
  nut 
  

   growing. 
  He 
  would 
  consider 
  it 
  a 
  favor 
  if 
  the 
  members 
  would 
  send 
  him 
  

   information 
  of 
  anything 
  of 
  this 
  kind 
  that 
  may 
  come 
  to 
  their 
  knowledge. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Littlepage 
  : 
  I 
  move 
  that 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  Secretary-Treasurer 
  

   be 
  approved. 
  

  

  