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  Thursday 
  Morning 
  Session 
  

  

  The 
  third 
  session 
  of 
  the 
  convention 
  was 
  called 
  to 
  order 
  at 
  9:50 
  

   A. 
  M. 
  with 
  the 
  president, 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  Russell 
  Smith, 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  The 
  

   opening 
  attendance 
  was 
  twenty-eight 
  persons. 
  

  

  The 
  President: 
  Owing 
  to 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  business 
  needs 
  to 
  be 
  

   predigested, 
  we 
  have 
  decided 
  to 
  postpone 
  the 
  amendments 
  to 
  the 
  

   constitution 
  until 
  this 
  evening's 
  session. 
  We 
  think 
  it 
  will 
  take 
  but 
  

   a 
  short 
  time 
  to 
  discuss 
  them. 
  Resolutions, 
  informal 
  discussion 
  on 
  

   seedlings, 
  the 
  chestnut, 
  and 
  similar 
  topics 
  will 
  also 
  be 
  brought 
  up 
  

   at 
  that 
  time. 
  This 
  morning's 
  session, 
  therefore, 
  will 
  be 
  devoted 
  to 
  

   the 
  intellectual, 
  rather 
  than 
  the 
  business 
  end. 
  

  

  I 
  know 
  of 
  no 
  subject 
  in 
  which 
  there 
  is 
  greater 
  possibility 
  of 
  secur- 
  

   ing 
  knowledge 
  than 
  the 
  question 
  of 
  nuts 
  for 
  the 
  north. 
  A 
  few 
  years 
  

   ago 
  a 
  friend 
  of 
  mine 
  wrote 
  me 
  he 
  had 
  bought 
  some 
  land, 
  and 
  was 
  

   planting 
  native 
  walnuts 
  in 
  the 
  fence 
  corners 
  to 
  be 
  top-worked 
  with 
  

   English 
  walnuts. 
  I 
  wrote 
  him, 
  recommending 
  oranges 
  instead, 
  

   telling 
  him 
  he 
  would 
  lose 
  less 
  money. 
  I 
  was 
  basing 
  this 
  advice 
  upon 
  

   my 
  own 
  bitter 
  experience. 
  The 
  accumulations 
  of 
  nut 
  knowledge 
  

   in 
  the 
  last 
  few 
  years 
  and 
  the 
  trees 
  now 
  growing 
  on 
  my 
  own 
  place 
  

   show 
  how 
  ridiculous 
  was 
  my 
  position 
  of 
  a 
  short 
  time 
  ago. 
  This 
  

   morning 
  I 
  think 
  we 
  are 
  likely 
  to 
  have 
  somewhat 
  similar 
  surprises 
  

   in 
  a 
  paper 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Morris. 
  He 
  will 
  give 
  us 
  information 
  on 
  the 
  hazel 
  

   nut, 
  giving 
  his 
  experience 
  with 
  the 
  European 
  varieties. 
  

  

  NOTES 
  ON 
  THE 
  HAZELS 
  

   Dr. 
  Robert 
  T. 
  Morris, 
  New 
  York 
  City 
  

  

  The 
  hazels 
  are 
  descended 
  from 
  an 
  ancient 
  and 
  honorable 
  family. 
  

   Impressions 
  of 
  leaves 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  Upper 
  Cretaceous 
  rocks 
  of 
  the 
  

   Yellowstone 
  Valley 
  cannot 
  be 
  distinguished 
  from 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  leaves 
  

   ■of 
  our 
  two 
  American 
  hazel 
  species 
  of 
  today. 
  

  

  The 
  hazels 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  Cwpuliferae 
  or 
  oak 
  family. 
  Our 
  Ameri- 
  

   can 
  species 
  are 
  only 
  two 
  in 
  number, 
  although 
  there 
  are 
  many 
  varie- 
  

   ties 
  of 
  the 
  species. 
  The 
  one 
  which 
  is 
  most 
  prized, 
  Corylus 
  ameri- 
  

   cana, 
  is 
  found 
  over 
  a 
  wide 
  range 
  of 
  territory 
  and 
  abundantly 
  in 
  

   many 
  places 
  between 
  Canada 
  and 
  the 
  southern 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  

   Appalachians, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  central 
  Mississippi 
  valley 
  to 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  

  

  coast. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  bears 
  nuts 
  of 
  excellent 
  quahty 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part, 
  

   ibut 
  of 
  rather 
  small 
  size 
  and 
  thick 
  shell, 
  excepting 
  in 
  individual 
  

  

  