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  hickories, 
  are 
  very 
  fine, 
  and 
  this 
  Rush 
  chinquapin, 
  I 
  expect, 
  would 
  be 
  

   very 
  fitting 
  for 
  hedge 
  planting. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  compact 
  grower, 
  and 
  grows 
  

   up 
  about 
  fifteen 
  or 
  twenty 
  feet, 
  making 
  a 
  very 
  pretty 
  tree. 
  But 
  every 
  

   one 
  of 
  these 
  trees 
  we 
  are 
  mentioning 
  has 
  its 
  particular 
  place 
  in 
  the 
  land- 
  

   scape. 
  You 
  can't 
  use 
  any 
  one 
  of 
  them 
  in 
  all 
  places. 
  

  

  President 
  Morris 
  : 
  The 
  objection 
  to 
  black 
  walnut 
  and 
  butternut 
  is 
  

   the 
  early 
  loss 
  of 
  leaves 
  in 
  autumn. 
  I 
  have 
  heard 
  others 
  speak 
  about 
  it 
  

   as 
  an 
  objection. 
  Among 
  the 
  rapid 
  growing 
  ones, 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  doubt 
  the 
  

   Japanese 
  walnuts 
  are 
  tremendously 
  rapid 
  growers, 
  during 
  the 
  first 
  few 
  

   years. 
  For 
  screen 
  purposes, 
  the 
  chestnuts 
  and 
  chinquapin 
  certainly 
  

   would 
  do 
  remarkably 
  well. 
  We 
  have 
  forgotten 
  the 
  beech 
  altogether, 
  

   simply 
  because 
  we 
  haven't 
  been 
  classifying 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  nut 
  tree. 
  But 
  the 
  

   nurserymen 
  can 
  put 
  out 
  beech 
  trees 
  grafted 
  from 
  trees 
  that 
  bear 
  fine, 
  

   valuable 
  nuts, 
  and 
  give 
  us 
  the 
  beech 
  as 
  a 
  tree 
  of 
  double 
  value. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Reed 
  : 
  Dr. 
  Deming 
  raised 
  the 
  question 
  as 
  to 
  why 
  the 
  hazel 
  nut 
  

   was 
  not 
  given 
  more 
  attention. 
  It 
  occurs 
  to 
  me 
  that 
  we 
  have 
  an 
  analogy 
  

   in 
  the 
  pecan 
  situation. 
  The 
  pecan 
  is 
  native 
  up 
  and 
  down 
  the 
  jNIississippi 
  

   River 
  and 
  out 
  in 
  Texas, 
  and 
  in 
  that 
  district 
  you 
  will 
  find 
  that 
  a 
  great 
  

   deal 
  less 
  attention 
  has 
  been 
  paid 
  to 
  development 
  of 
  varieties 
  of 
  the 
  pecan 
  

   as 
  an 
  orchard 
  tree 
  than 
  farther 
  east. 
  All 
  through 
  Mississippi, 
  Alabama, 
  

   Georgia, 
  and 
  Florida, 
  we 
  find 
  new 
  varieties 
  by 
  the 
  scores. 
  It 
  seems 
  to 
  

   be 
  a 
  case 
  of 
  distance 
  lending 
  enchantment. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Lake 
  : 
  Going 
  back, 
  I 
  wanted 
  to 
  ask 
  you, 
  Doctor 
  Morris, 
  if 
  

   in 
  your 
  work 
  of 
  reproducing 
  the 
  hazel, 
  you 
  had 
  used 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Coast 
  

   hazel 
  for 
  stock. 
  

  

  President 
  Morris: 
  Yes, 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Coast 
  hazel 
  is 
  really 
  the 
  same 
  

   species 
  as 
  ours, 
  only 
  it 
  grows 
  thirty 
  or 
  forty 
  feet 
  out 
  there, 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  

   seen 
  it 
  nearly 
  thirty 
  feet 
  high 
  up 
  in 
  the 
  Hudson 
  Bay 
  country. 
  In 
  some 
  

   of 
  the 
  rich 
  valleys 
  in 
  the 
  far 
  North, 
  both 
  on 
  the 
  Pacific 
  and 
  Atlantic 
  

   Coasts, 
  the 
  hazel 
  becomes 
  almost 
  a 
  tree. 
  I 
  have 
  used 
  it 
  for 
  grafting 
  

   stock, 
  but 
  I 
  haven't 
  used 
  it 
  for 
  crossing 
  as 
  yet. 
  I 
  have 
  a 
  lot 
  of 
  hazels 
  

   ready 
  for 
  pollenizing 
  next 
  spring. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Lake 
  : 
  It 
  seems 
  to 
  me 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  a 
  most 
  excellent 
  thing 
  

   if 
  this 
  Association 
  could 
  do 
  something 
  in 
  the 
  way 
  of 
  stimulating 
  the 
  

   improvement 
  of 
  varieties 
  of 
  the 
  native 
  hazel. 
  I 
  can't 
  help 
  thinking 
  that 
  

   bush 
  is 
  entitled 
  to 
  much 
  more 
  attention 
  than 
  we 
  have 
  given 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  past. 
  

  

  President 
  Morris 
  : 
  Some 
  work 
  has 
  been 
  done 
  along 
  that 
  line. 
  I 
  

   devoted 
  the 
  entire 
  nut-collecting 
  part 
  of 
  one 
  year 
  to 
  studying 
  the 
  hazel. 
  

   I 
  went 
  over 
  many 
  thousands 
  of 
  hazels. 
  One 
  day, 
  when 
  I 
  asked 
  a 
  neigh- 
  

   bor 
  if 
  I 
  might 
  go 
  over 
  his 
  grounds, 
  he 
  said, 
  "Yes, 
  but 
  what 
  better 
  hazel 
  

   do 
  you 
  want 
  than 
  that 
  one 
  that 
  grows 
  above 
  your 
  north 
  bars?" 
  He 
  

   said, 
  "We 
  have 
  known 
  of 
  that 
  for 
  one 
  hundred 
  years 
  about 
  here." 
  He 
  

   couldn't 
  find 
  it. 
  Finally 
  it 
  was 
  found, 
  covered 
  by 
  a 
  ton 
  of 
  grape 
  vine. 
  

  

  