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  two 
  3'ears 
  under 
  way, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  larger 
  one 
  three 
  years. 
  These 
  

   patches 
  of 
  blight 
  were 
  allowed 
  to 
  grow 
  experimentally. 
  Mean- 
  

   while, 
  I 
  trimmed 
  out 
  all 
  other 
  blight 
  areas 
  of 
  the 
  bark 
  with 
  my 
  jack- 
  

   knife. 
  This 
  is 
  very 
  readily 
  done. 
  If 
  one 
  will 
  look 
  over 
  his 
  hazel 
  

   bushes 
  once 
  a 
  year 
  and 
  simply 
  whip 
  out 
  the 
  few 
  slices 
  of 
  bark 
  car- 
  

   rying 
  the 
  blight, 
  it 
  is 
  done 
  so 
  easily 
  and 
  quickly 
  that 
  we 
  now 
  need 
  

   to 
  have 
  no 
  fear 
  whatsoever 
  for 
  the 
  future 
  of 
  hazel 
  culture 
  in 
  this 
  

   country. 
  

  

  If 
  the 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Association 
  will 
  examine 
  these 
  Crypto- 
  

   sporella 
  specimens 
  which 
  are 
  passed 
  about, 
  and 
  if 
  they 
  will 
  dispose 
  

   of 
  the 
  bhght 
  according 
  to 
  directions, 
  I 
  feel 
  that 
  the 
  hazel 
  question 
  

   involving 
  a 
  matter 
  perhaps 
  of 
  millions 
  of 
  dollars 
  worth 
  of 
  invest- 
  

   ment 
  has 
  been 
  settled. 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  foreign 
  hazels 
  which 
  will 
  thrive 
  in 
  this 
  country 
  the 
  

   Byzantine 
  hazel, 
  Corylus 
  colurna 
  is 
  by 
  all 
  means 
  the 
  most 
  beautiful. 
  

   It 
  makes 
  a 
  tree 
  as 
  large 
  as 
  the 
  ordinary 
  oaks, 
  and 
  in 
  Hungarj^ 
  I 
  

   have 
  seen 
  a 
  trunk 
  three 
  feet 
  in 
  diameter 
  at 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  above 
  

   the 
  ground. 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  told 
  that 
  a 
  single 
  tree 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  will 
  

   sometimes 
  bear 
  about 
  twenty 
  bushels 
  of 
  nuts 
  at 
  a 
  single 
  crop. 
  This 
  

   presumably 
  refers 
  to 
  the 
  nuts 
  in 
  their 
  large 
  involucral 
  mass, 
  — 
  say 
  

   four 
  or 
  five 
  bushels 
  of 
  husked 
  nuts. 
  The 
  wood 
  of 
  these 
  species 
  is 
  

   hard, 
  takes 
  a 
  high 
  polish 
  and 
  is 
  valuable. 
  The 
  tree 
  itself 
  is 
  strik- 
  

   ingly 
  beautiful 
  as 
  the 
  members 
  will 
  observe 
  this 
  afternoon 
  when 
  

   examining 
  the 
  Byzantine 
  hazels 
  which 
  Superintendent 
  Laney 
  will 
  

   show 
  us 
  in 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  Rochester 
  parks. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  of 
  hazel 
  in 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  localities 
  about 
  the 
  Black 
  

   Sea 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  form 
  almost 
  the 
  entire 
  source 
  of 
  income 
  over 
  large 
  

   districts. 
  The 
  nuts 
  are 
  not 
  large, 
  as 
  a 
  rule 
  averaging 
  about 
  like 
  

   those 
  of 
  our 
  common 
  American 
  hazel 
  in 
  size, 
  quahty 
  and 
  thinness 
  

   of 
  shell. 
  Grafted 
  or 
  budded 
  stocks 
  may 
  be 
  made 
  to 
  bear 
  large 
  

   thin-shelled 
  nuts. 
  I 
  am 
  using 
  this 
  hazel 
  at 
  present 
  for 
  grafting 
  

   stock 
  for 
  choice 
  foreign 
  species 
  and 
  varieties 
  of 
  other 
  kinds, 
  and 
  

   for 
  the 
  American 
  hazel, 
  although 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  that 
  the 
  American 
  hazel 
  

   will 
  not 
  respond 
  well 
  to 
  so 
  large 
  and 
  vigorous 
  a 
  stock 
  in 
  the 
  long 
  

   run. 
  Nuts 
  and 
  nursery 
  stock 
  may 
  be 
  obtained 
  through 
  French 
  

   nursery 
  firms. 
  

  

  The 
  reason 
  why 
  the 
  Byzantine 
  hazel 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  planted 
  widely 
  

   in 
  America 
  as 
  yet, 
  is 
  because 
  we 
  have 
  not 
  advanced 
  that 
  far 
  in 
  civil- 
  

   ization,— 
  people 
  have 
  not 
  happened 
  to 
  think 
  about 
  it. 
  We 
  must 
  

   leave 
  something 
  for 
  the 
  people 
  who 
  are 
  to 
  come 
  five 
  thousand 
  years 
  

   after 
  us, 
  and 
  not 
  think 
  of 
  all 
  good 
  things 
  at 
  once. 
  

  

  The 
  Byzantine 
  hazel 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  quite 
  free 
  from 
  the 
  blight 
  and 
  

  

  