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grown on a grafted tree. I think that is the first instance in which 

 a grafted pecan tree of the Indiana variety has borne in the North. 

 Mr, Snyder says he has fruited a Witte pecan at his place. A num- 

 ber of us have been striving to make the record for first bearing of a 

 grafted " Indiana " pecan tree in the North. Mr. Wycoff has 

 won it. 



Mr. O'Connor, I think, has brought with him a number of 

 branches of pecans grown in Maryland. 



Mr. O'Connor: I have some hazels and also some chinkapins. 



The Secretary: Have you any pecans fruiting down there 

 this year ? 



Mr. O'Connor: Several nights of frost hurt us pretty bad this 

 spring. We have one tree that has got a few pecans on this year; 

 last year the same tree had over a hundred ; this year it hasn't got 

 more than a dozen, but it promises to have a heavy crop next year. 



The President: What variety of pecans? 



Mr. O'Connor: If I am not mistaken, it is the Indiana. There 

 are several trees that promise to bear heavily next year. In the 

 spring we had a severe frost for seven nights in succession and that 

 hurt our trees pretty bad. We are in the frost belt down there. Last 

 year we didn't have any apples or peaches ; this year we have some 

 apples and some peaches but the grapes were severely hurt by the 

 frost, also there are very few walnuts on the trees this year. 



Mr. Corsan : From traveling around as much as I do I can 

 vouch for that gentleman's statement in regard to the frost. I was 

 up in the extreme northern part of the United Sates, northern New 

 York, and I never saw such a crop of hickory nuts in my life and 

 I have gathered nuts since I am able to remember. I have also seen 

 more peaches up in Ontario and even north of Ontario. When you 

 talk about frost and the South having such an advantage over the 

 North, it is entirely wrong; I have had that idea knocked out of me 

 for a good many years. 



The Secretary : I wish also to say that I brought here a small 

 branch from the Hartford pecan tree bearing two nuts. The Hart- 

 ford pecan tree is undoubtedly the largest pecan tree in the North. 

 It is about ten feet in circumference, over seventy-five feet high and 

 has a very large spread. I will ask Mr. Weber if he will give us the 

 account again of the finding of that black walnut in the river and tell 

 us the result of his investigation. 



Mr. Weber : Whenever I come across a black walnut I want 

 to open it up and see what it looks like inside. Following that cus- 

 tom when I found a walnut that had lodged against the dyke north 

 of the central part of the city, I was surprised when I opened it be- 

 cause the partitions were very thin, like an English walnut. Later 

 on I found another similar nut lodged against the dyke of the river 

 about a quarter of a mile along. Then through a statement in the 

 paper and an advertising campaign we tried to locate the tree. 

 Finally we got the name of a man in Floyd, Va., who said he knew of 



