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  Professor 
  Collins 
  : 
  Is 
  there 
  any 
  antagonism 
  between 
  eastern 
  Asian 
  

   and 
  Japanese? 
  

  

  President 
  jMorris: 
  I 
  don't 
  know 
  that 
  my 
  experience 
  has 
  been 
  ex- 
  

   tensive 
  enough 
  to 
  say. 
  My 
  men 
  have 
  put 
  on 
  perhaps 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  

   hundred 
  grafts 
  back 
  and 
  forth 
  between 
  these 
  kinds, 
  the 
  customary 
  ac- 
  

   cidents 
  have 
  happened, 
  and 
  we 
  have 
  about 
  given 
  up 
  trying 
  to 
  do 
  much 
  

   grafting 
  of 
  Japanese 
  on 
  American, 
  but 
  still 
  plan 
  to 
  graft 
  Japanese 
  

   back 
  and 
  forth 
  upon 
  each 
  other, 
  and 
  we 
  are 
  now 
  planning 
  to 
  graft 
  

   European 
  and 
  American 
  back 
  and 
  forth 
  upon 
  each 
  other. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Bro\Mi 
  : 
  What 
  about 
  the 
  position 
  of 
  the 
  graft 
  ? 
  

  

  President 
  Morris 
  : 
  I 
  don 
  't 
  know, 
  Mr. 
  Brown, 
  if 
  there 
  is 
  very 
  much 
  

   difference. 
  I 
  haven't 
  found 
  very 
  much. 
  I 
  have 
  grafted 
  all 
  the 
  way 
  

   from 
  the 
  root 
  to 
  the 
  top. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Rush: 
  It 
  is 
  better 
  on 
  top. 
  Sometimes 
  the 
  grafting 
  has 
  an 
  

   effect 
  upon 
  the 
  stock 
  just 
  at 
  the 
  union. 
  If 
  it 
  is 
  budded 
  low, 
  it 
  blights. 
  

   The 
  bark 
  gets 
  loose. 
  AH 
  those 
  that 
  are 
  grafted 
  high 
  are 
  doing 
  re- 
  

   markably 
  well. 
  

  

  President 
  Morris: 
  The 
  next 
  on 
  the 
  list 
  is 
  Doctor 
  Deming's 
  paper 
  

   on 
  "Nut 
  Promotions." 
  

  

  Doctor 
  Deming 
  : 
  I 
  will 
  read 
  first 
  a 
  communication 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Henry 
  

   Hales 
  of 
  Ridgewood, 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  

  

  HALES' 
  PAPER 
  SHELL 
  HICKORY. 
  

  

  My 
  shagbark 
  (paper 
  shell) 
  hickory 
  tree 
  was 
  on 
  my 
  farm 
  when 
  I 
  

   bought 
  it 
  in 
  1868. 
  It 
  had 
  been 
  noticed 
  by 
  the 
  neighbors 
  as 
  bearing 
  a 
  

   fine 
  nut 
  and 
  was 
  watched 
  by 
  them 
  for 
  the 
  nuts, 
  but 
  they 
  did 
  not 
  appre- 
  

   ciate 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  them. 
  The 
  late 
  Andrew 
  S. 
  Fuller 
  had 
  not 
  seen 
  them, 
  

   but 
  asked 
  me 
  to 
  bring 
  him 
  a 
  few. 
  When 
  he 
  saw 
  them 
  he 
  was 
  surprised 
  

   and 
  at 
  once 
  pronounced 
  them 
  the 
  finest 
  hickories 
  he 
  had 
  ever 
  seen, 
  and 
  

   named 
  them 
  "Hales' 
  Paper 
  Shell." 
  The 
  hickory 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  

   valuable 
  of 
  North 
  American 
  nuts. 
  It 
  is 
  of 
  a 
  variable 
  nature. 
  I 
  have 
  

   over 
  twenty 
  old 
  trees 
  on 
  my 
  place, 
  and 
  no 
  two 
  bear 
  nuts 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  

   shape 
  or 
  size, 
  and 
  although 
  some 
  neighbors 
  planted 
  some 
  nuts 
  from 
  the 
  

   old 
  tree 
  and 
  produced 
  fruit 
  from 
  them 
  they 
  were 
  only 
  ordinary 
  sized, 
  

   so 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  necessary 
  to 
  propagate 
  them 
  to 
  retain 
  their 
  value. 
  About 
  

   1880 
  Parsons 
  & 
  Son, 
  of 
  Flushing, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  grafted 
  some 
  in 
  pots 
  under 
  

   glass, 
  from 
  which 
  trees 
  these 
  nuts 
  sent 
  are 
  the 
  product. 
  The 
  fruit 
  is 
  

   fully 
  as 
  fine 
  as 
  the 
  original 
  tree. 
  Prof. 
  C. 
  B. 
  Sargent 
  of 
  the 
  Arnold 
  

   Arboretum 
  has 
  taken 
  great 
  interest 
  in 
  the 
  nut. 
  I 
  have 
  two 
  trees 
  grafted 
  

   on 
  wild 
  saplings 
  by 
  Jackson 
  Dawson 
  near 
  bearing 
  size. 
  

  

  Those 
  are 
  the 
  only 
  trees 
  successfully 
  grafted, 
  out 
  of 
  thousands 
  done 
  

  

  