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  business 
  for 
  the 
  annual 
  report, 
  and 
  would 
  pay 
  his 
  own 
  dues 
  promptly 
  on 
  the 
  first 
  

   intimation 
  from 
  the 
  secretary. 
  Members 
  whose 
  dues 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  are 
  not 
  paid 
  

   win 
  not 
  receive 
  the 
  annual 
  report 
  and, 
  after 
  a 
  decent 
  interval, 
  their 
  names 
  will 
  

   automatically 
  drop 
  from 
  the 
  roll 
  of 
  membership 
  and 
  not 
  appear 
  in 
  the 
  next 
  

   annual 
  report. 
  

  

  Except 
  from 
  a 
  financial 
  standpoint 
  the 
  Association 
  may 
  fairly 
  consider 
  that 
  

   it 
  has 
  had 
  a 
  prosperous 
  year. 
  Our 
  present 
  membership 
  is 
  134, 
  an 
  increase 
  of 
  48 
  

   over 
  the 
  number 
  reported 
  at 
  the 
  last 
  meeting. 
  (At 
  date 
  of 
  going 
  to 
  press 
  the 
  

   n.embership 
  is 
  143.) 
  

  

  Three 
  members 
  have 
  resigned 
  and 
  we 
  have 
  lost 
  two 
  by 
  death, 
  Mr. 
  George 
  W. 
  

   Gschwind 
  of 
  Brooklyn, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  and 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  D. 
  Ellwanger 
  of 
  Eochester, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

   (News 
  came 
  during 
  the 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  Henry 
  Hales 
  of 
  Eidgewood, 
  

   N. 
  J., 
  the 
  first 
  honorary 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Association. 
  An 
  account 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Hale 
  's 
  

   work 
  with 
  nuts 
  appears 
  elsewhere 
  in 
  this 
  report.) 
  

  

  Thirty-one 
  members 
  have 
  failed 
  to 
  pay 
  their 
  dues 
  and 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  sent 
  

   copies 
  of 
  the 
  report. 
  The 
  secretary 
  asks 
  permission 
  to 
  drop 
  the 
  names 
  of 
  these 
  

   members 
  from 
  the 
  rolls 
  and 
  that 
  a 
  rule 
  be 
  formulated 
  to 
  guide 
  his 
  action 
  in 
  the 
  

   future. 
  

  

  That 
  interest 
  in 
  nut 
  growing 
  is 
  increasing 
  is 
  shown 
  by 
  the 
  issuance 
  this 
  year 
  

   of 
  three 
  catalogues 
  devoted 
  entirely 
  to 
  nuts 
  for 
  northern, 
  or 
  northern 
  and 
  

   middle, 
  planting. 
  One 
  nurseryman 
  grows 
  nothing 
  else. 
  All 
  are 
  members 
  of 
  

   this 
  Association 
  and 
  the 
  nuts 
  propagated 
  have 
  all 
  been 
  shown 
  at 
  our 
  meetings. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  secretary 
  during 
  the 
  year, 
  besides 
  the 
  preparation 
  and 
  issu- 
  

   ing 
  of 
  the 
  annual 
  report, 
  has 
  been 
  given 
  to 
  answering 
  a 
  large 
  and 
  increasing 
  

   correspondence, 
  by 
  personal 
  letters 
  and 
  our 
  various 
  bulletins 
  and 
  circulars. 
  

   The 
  resolutions 
  introduced 
  by 
  the 
  Committee 
  on 
  Eesolutions 
  at 
  the 
  last 
  meeting, 
  

   and 
  ordered 
  by 
  the 
  Association 
  to 
  be 
  printed 
  and 
  distributed 
  as 
  directed 
  in 
  the 
  

   resolutions, 
  were 
  sent 
  out 
  by 
  the 
  secretary. 
  A 
  number 
  of 
  very 
  complimentary 
  

   letters 
  in 
  reply 
  to 
  this 
  were 
  received. 
  

  

  Arrangements 
  and 
  announcements 
  were 
  made 
  that 
  all 
  members 
  were 
  to 
  

   receive 
  a 
  subscription 
  for 
  one 
  year 
  to 
  the 
  American 
  Fruit 
  and 
  Nut 
  Journal 
  as 
  a 
  

   part 
  of 
  their 
  membership, 
  and 
  that 
  new 
  members 
  would 
  receive 
  in 
  addition 
  

   copies 
  of 
  both 
  the 
  reports 
  that 
  we 
  have 
  issued. 
  This 
  proved 
  very 
  attractive, 
  

   but 
  unexpected 
  complications 
  have 
  arisen 
  that 
  have 
  kept 
  the 
  secretary 
  busy 
  

   explaining 
  why 
  he 
  has 
  been 
  unable 
  to 
  fulfil 
  both 
  of 
  these 
  promises. 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  suggestion 
  of 
  Professor 
  Hutt 
  a 
  circular 
  was 
  issued 
  to 
  gather 
  infor- 
  

   mation 
  about 
  the 
  Persian 
  walnut 
  tree 
  in 
  the 
  North. 
  Eeplies 
  are 
  still 
  coming 
  in 
  

   and 
  the 
  information 
  obtained 
  has 
  not 
  yet 
  been 
  collated. 
  It 
  shows 
  already, 
  

   however, 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  great 
  number 
  of 
  trees 
  in 
  the 
  North; 
  that 
  there 
  are 
  two 
  

   large 
  centers 
  so 
  far 
  shown, 
  one 
  about 
  Eochester, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  in 
  

   Ontario, 
  Canada, 
  on 
  the 
  strip 
  of 
  land 
  between 
  Lakes 
  Erie 
  and 
  Ontario, 
  known 
  

   as 
  the 
  Niagara 
  Peninsula. 
  In 
  both 
  localities 
  reporters 
  speak 
  of 
  hundreds 
  of 
  

   trees. 
  One 
  grower 
  near 
  Eochester 
  has 
  225 
  seedling 
  trees 
  about 
  27 
  years 
  old 
  

   from 
  which 
  he 
  is 
  marketing 
  nuts. 
  

  

  The 
  original 
  trees 
  in 
  these 
  locations 
  are 
  often 
  spoken 
  of 
  as 
  grown 
  from 
  seed 
  

   brought 
  from" 
  Philadelphia 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  the 
  Centennial 
  Exposition. 
  Another 
  

   center 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  about 
  Lancaster, 
  Pa. 
  There 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  the 
  original 
  

   trees 
  were 
  brought 
  in 
  by 
  the 
  Germans. 
  Perhaps 
  the 
  Philadelphia 
  trees 
  above 
  

   referred 
  to 
  had 
  the 
  same 
  origin. 
  This 
  would 
  be 
  a 
  good 
  subject 
  for 
  investigation 
  

   by 
  some 
  of 
  our 
  Pennsylvania 
  members. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  a 
  tree, 
  said 
  to 
  bear 
  good 
  crops 
  of 
  good 
  nuts, 
  at 
  Newburyport 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  