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Shore being one of the best localities for the economic production of 

 English walnuts. Two years ago the Canterbury Nurseries had 

 shipped from Portland, Oregon, 200 English walnuts. We planted 

 them as you always do one of those things that are a side issue. We 

 planted them on the shore, not in nursery rows. They were all very 

 "ice trees, from 6 to 8 feet from tlie bud, alive to the tips. They were 

 planted with some misgiving. The following spring, after exposure 

 to the winter, they were alive to the tips. Now such a thing could 

 not possibly have happened in New York State. Those Oregon grown 

 plants would have been killed back. I assume it was the water and mild 

 winters. This is corroborated not by the walnut trees alone but by 

 other plants that are a little tender in their young state, such as box- 

 wood. The dwarf boxwood make an annual growth of three or four 

 inches. In Philadelphia and northward the annual gain of the same 

 boxwood is not more than two inches, due to winter killing. I am pretty 

 sure that of two walnut groves, one planted here and one planted in 

 New York State, the one on the Eastern Shore would be brought into 

 bearing two or three years earlier at considerably less cost. I think 

 that the stars in their course will fight for any one who plants a nut 

 grove on the Eastern Shore. 



Dr. Morris: I believe that we must look upon nuts rather as a 

 correlative than as a substitute food supply. With the present rate of 

 increase it is evident that the people in future years will be living so 

 easily upon an abundance of food that we can hardly comprehend the 

 luxuries that they will have. Nut crops are to be a correlating food sup- 

 ply rather than a, substitute food supply. 



At this time Mr. Frank Pilch of the Rotary Club extended to the 

 members and others present an invitation to a luncheon at the club hall 

 over the new theater. 



Mr. Neilson: I move that we adjourn for lunch until 1:30. 



Adjournment. 



Afternoon Session 



The President: We will now take up the program and the first 

 paper this afternoon will be that by Dr. E. C. Auchter. 



