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FIELD MEETING 



On the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 15, the convention visited the 

 nut nurseries and orchards of Mr. J. F. Jones at Willow Street, three 

 miles from Lancaster. ^Ir. Jones conducted the members and visitors 

 to the points of interest and Mr. C. A. Reed gave a careful description 

 of them in passing. At noon Mrs. Jones served an excellent luncheon 

 to all the guests in Mr. Jones' very large packing shed where, also, the 

 implements used in transplanting and digging nut trees were in- 

 spected. After luncheon a group photograph was taken, demonstrations 

 in budding and grafting were given by Mr. Jones, Prof. Neilson and 

 Mr. Hershey, and a visit was made to the former home of Mr. J. G. 

 Rush at Willow Street. Here many of the Persian walnut trees 

 planted by Mr. Rush were seen loaded with a fine crop of nuts. 



The following is a copy of a descriptive list given each guest by 

 Mr. Jones in order that the tour of the orchards might be intelligently 

 followed : 



Beginning in yard near house: 



No. ]. Marquardt pecan. Seedling pecan set 1919 and grafted 

 at once. 



No. 2. Holden walnut budded on .Japan walnut stock. Planted 

 1916. 



No. 3. Constantinople tree hazel, corylus colurna. Planted 1920. 



Nos. 4 & 5. Rush hazel on own roots. Though a very hardy 

 plant, these, like most of the filberts, suffered from the severe cold 

 in March. 



No. 6. Rush hazel grafted on a seedling of Barcelona filbert. 



No. 7. Ridenhower iiard-shell almonds and Texas Prolific budded 

 on peach. Worked together to get hybrids from natural cross pollina- 

 tion. Texas Prolific is not perfectly self pollinating so thit many of 

 tlie nuts set are cross pollinated, and produce hybrids. 



No. 8. Nebo w^alnut, a local sort, planted 1913. Note good union 

 of the English and black walnut. 



Nos. 9 & 10. Greenriver pecan. Planted 1913. Trees of this 

 variety have borne very sparingly as yet with me. 



