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  Professor 
  Lake 
  : 
  At 
  what 
  time 
  was 
  the 
  ringing 
  done 
  ? 
  

  

  President 
  Morris 
  : 
  The 
  leaves 
  had 
  fallen 
  this 
  year. 
  Professor 
  Co- 
  

   ville 
  suggested 
  that 
  it 
  be 
  done 
  before 
  the 
  leaves 
  had 
  fallen. 
  But 
  the 
  

   hickory 
  will 
  callous 
  after 
  the 
  leaves 
  have 
  fallen. 
  It 
  seems 
  to 
  me 
  hick- 
  

   ories 
  are 
  at 
  work 
  all 
  winter 
  long. 
  They 
  have 
  a 
  free 
  flow 
  of 
  sap 
  in 
  Janu- 
  

   ary, 
  and 
  any 
  warm 
  day 
  in 
  January 
  they 
  will 
  be 
  like 
  a 
  maple 
  tree, 
  

   almost, 
  if 
  they 
  are 
  cut. 
  I 
  have 
  grafted 
  them 
  at 
  that 
  time. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Brown 
  : 
  Can 
  anyone 
  give 
  me 
  any 
  information 
  on 
  grafting 
  

   chestnuts 
  ? 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Rush 
  : 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  very 
  successful 
  with 
  the 
  grafting 
  of 
  the 
  

   chestnut. 
  It 
  is 
  just 
  as 
  simple 
  as 
  grafting 
  other 
  fruit, 
  except 
  the 
  Persian 
  

   walnut. 
  Tongue 
  grafting 
  and 
  cleft 
  grafting 
  is 
  very 
  successful. 
  There 
  

   is 
  no 
  particular 
  secret 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  grafting 
  chestnuts. 
  

  

  President 
  Morris: 
  Personally, 
  I 
  found 
  it 
  difficult 
  for 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  

   years, 
  but 
  now 
  I 
  can 
  graft 
  the 
  chestnut 
  about 
  as 
  readily 
  as 
  I 
  can 
  graft 
  

   the 
  apple. 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  difference 
  in 
  methods. 
  It 
  seehis 
  to 
  me 
  from 
  my 
  

   present 
  experience 
  that 
  one 
  may 
  graft 
  or 
  bud 
  chestnut 
  by 
  almost 
  any 
  of 
  

   the 
  accepted 
  methods 
  pretty 
  freely. 
  What 
  has 
  been 
  your 
  experience, 
  

   Mr. 
  Littlepage? 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Littlepage 
  : 
  I 
  haven 
  't 
  been 
  experimenting 
  with 
  the 
  propaga- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  chestnut 
  yet. 
  I 
  am 
  getting 
  ready. 
  I 
  have 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  

   thousand 
  seedlings, 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  which 
  will 
  be 
  ready 
  to 
  graft 
  next 
  year. 
  I 
  

   have 
  twenty 
  acres 
  of 
  the 
  Paragon 
  chestnuts 
  growing. 
  

  

  President 
  Morris 
  : 
  In 
  chestnut 
  grafting, 
  we 
  will 
  And 
  that 
  one 
  kind 
  

   does 
  not 
  graft 
  or 
  bud 
  readily 
  upon 
  another 
  kind, 
  perhaps. 
  For 
  in- 
  

   stance, 
  there 
  is 
  some 
  antagonism 
  between 
  the 
  American 
  sweet 
  chestnut 
  

   and 
  Asiatic 
  chestnuts. 
  There 
  is 
  some 
  antagonism 
  between 
  Asiatic 
  and 
  

   Europeans; 
  there 
  is 
  little 
  between 
  Europeans 
  and 
  American 
  sweet. 
  

   These 
  antagonisms 
  are 
  something 
  that 
  one 
  has 
  to 
  learn 
  from 
  experience 
  

   at 
  the 
  present 
  time, 
  because 
  I 
  doubt 
  if 
  we 
  have 
  had 
  enough 
  experience 
  to 
  

   know 
  just 
  where 
  we 
  stand 
  on 
  this 
  question. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Collins 
  : 
  Doesn 
  't 
  there 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  antagonism 
  between 
  

   eastern 
  Asiatic 
  other 
  than 
  Japanese 
  and 
  Japanese? 
  

  

  President 
  Morris 
  : 
  Yes 
  ; 
  the 
  Koreans 
  of 
  both 
  kinds, 
  the 
  north 
  Jap- 
  

   anese 
  of 
  both 
  kinds, 
  and 
  the 
  Manchurian 
  chestnut 
  are 
  the 
  five 
  that 
  I 
  

   have 
  experimented 
  with 
  in 
  grafting, 
  and 
  none 
  of 
  those 
  grow 
  so 
  well 
  on 
  

   American 
  stock 
  as 
  they 
  should. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Collins: 
  I 
  mean 
  to 
  say 
  between 
  the 
  Korean 
  and 
  the 
  

   Japanese. 
  

  

  President 
  Morris: 
  There 
  is 
  less 
  antagonism. 
  You 
  can 
  graft 
  the 
  

   Korean 
  upon 
  the 
  Japanese 
  and 
  the 
  Japanese 
  upon 
  the 
  Korean 
  very 
  

   readily. 
  They 
  have 
  very 
  much 
  the 
  same 
  texture 
  of 
  wood, 
  the 
  same 
  

   character 
  of 
  buds 
  and 
  bark. 
  

  

  