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  ence 
  upon 
  the 
  nuts 
  of 
  the 
  year. 
  Theoretically 
  it 
  should 
  not 
  do 
  

   so, 
  but 
  I 
  noticed 
  one 
  case 
  apparently 
  in 
  which 
  I 
  crossed 
  a 
  chink- 
  

   apin 
  with 
  a 
  Chinese 
  chestnut, 
  and 
  the 
  nuts 
  of 
  that 
  year 
  seemed 
  

   to 
  me 
  to 
  present 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  Chinese 
  chestnuts' 
  characteristics. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Hutt: 
  This 
  year 
  I 
  crossed 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  varieties 
  of 
  

   pecans 
  and 
  in 
  nearly 
  all 
  those 
  crosses 
  there 
  was 
  to 
  me 
  quite 
  

   an 
  evident 
  difference 
  in 
  the 
  nuts. 
  For 
  instance 
  those 
  gathered 
  

   off 
  certain 
  parts 
  of 
  a 
  pecan 
  tree 
  of 
  certain 
  varieties, 
  Schley 
  or 
  

   Curtis 
  or 
  Frotscher, 
  would 
  be 
  typical 
  nuts, 
  but 
  those 
  hybrids 
  

   or 
  crosses 
  that 
  I 
  produced 
  were 
  distorted, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  misshapen 
  

   and 
  seemed 
  to 
  have 
  peculiarities; 
  so 
  that 
  when 
  we 
  came 
  to 
  

   look 
  over 
  the 
  colony 
  we 
  were 
  in 
  doubt 
  whether 
  they 
  were 
  hand 
  

   pollinated 
  hybrids 
  or 
  had 
  been 
  pollinated 
  before 
  we 
  got 
  the 
  

   blossoms 
  covered. 
  Many 
  of 
  them 
  evidenced 
  a 
  great 
  number 
  

   of 
  distortions, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  them 
  I 
  remember 
  particularly 
  whose 
  

   shell 
  was 
  so 
  thin 
  it 
  was 
  just 
  like 
  a 
  piece 
  of 
  brown 
  paper; 
  and 
  

   there 
  were 
  several 
  peculiarities 
  that 
  were 
  quite 
  noticeable 
  in 
  

   those 
  hand 
  pollinated 
  nuts. 
  

  

  The 
  Chairman: 
  That 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  interesting 
  point. 
  When 
  

   we 
  come 
  to 
  consider 
  deformities 
  of 
  nuts 
  we 
  shall 
  find 
  very 
  many 
  

   cases 
  due 
  to 
  the 
  character 
  of 
  the 
  pollinization. 
  I 
  crossed 
  the 
  

   Persian 
  walnut 
  with 
  the 
  shagbark 
  hickory 
  and 
  had 
  nuts 
  that 
  

   year 
  of 
  just 
  the 
  sort 
  of 
  which 
  Mr. 
  Hunt 
  speaks, 
  with 
  shells 
  as 
  

   thin 
  as 
  paper. 
  One 
  could 
  crush 
  them 
  with 
  the 
  very 
  slightest 
  

   pressure 
  of 
  the 
  finger. 
  The 
  shells 
  were 
  not 
  well 
  developed. 
  

   Unfortunately 
  the 
  mice 
  happened 
  to 
  get 
  at 
  all 
  of 
  those 
  nuts. 
  

   I 
  don't 
  know 
  if 
  they 
  were 
  fertile 
  or 
  not. 
  The 
  kernels 
  were 
  only 
  

   about 
  half 
  developed. 
  I 
  should 
  look 
  for 
  deformity 
  in 
  these 
  

   nuts 
  rather 
  than 
  a 
  takmg 
  on 
  of 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  one 
  parent 
  over 
  the 
  

   other, 
  the 
  idea 
  being 
  based 
  on 
  theoretical 
  biological 
  considera- 
  

   tions. 
  We 
  had 
  last 
  year 
  a 
  photograph 
  of 
  a 
  tree 
  in 
  California 
  

   which 
  apparently 
  was 
  a 
  cross, 
  a 
  very 
  odd 
  cross 
  — 
  does 
  any 
  one 
  

   remember 
  about 
  that 
  California 
  tree 
  ? 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Wilcox: 
  It 
  was 
  a 
  cross 
  between 
  Juglans 
  Californica 
  

   and 
  the 
  live 
  oak. 
  

  

  The 
  Chairman: 
  Both 
  the 
  foliage 
  and 
  the 
  nuts 
  were 
  very 
  

   remarkable 
  and 
  pertained 
  to 
  characters 
  of 
  these 
  two 
  trees. 
  Such 
  

   a 
  cross 
  to 
  my 
  mind 
  would 
  be 
  wholly 
  unexplainable 
  excepting 
  

   on 
  the 
  ground 
  recently 
  brought 
  out 
  by 
  Loeb 
  and 
  his 
  followers 
  

   in 
  crossing 
  the 
  lower 
  forms 
  of 
  animal 
  life 
  and 
  finding 
  that 
  the 
  

   cell 
  membrane 
  of 
  the 
  egg, 
  if 
  destroyed, 
  will 
  allow 
  of 
  very 
  wide 
  

   fertilization 
  subsequently 
  with 
  other 
  species. 
  It 
  occurs 
  to 
  me 
  

  

  