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I am met with a disappointment this evening. Mrs. Patterson 

 tentatively promised to favour us with a paper on the use of nuts as 

 foods. But I regret to say that she is somewhat indisposed and 

 unable to favor us with a paper as promised. So I am going to ask 

 another member, a new member, to make a few remarks on the sub- 

 ject of nuts as food. I know that he knows what he is talking about 

 when it comes to a discussion of the subject of nuts as food, because 

 I come in rather vigorous contact with him twice a week, and he 

 talks nuts as food to me on those occasions. I am endeavoring to 

 follow out his suggestions as closely as -possible and I know that I 

 am benefiting in health by so doing. I refer to James B. Rawnsley, 

 the noted physical culturist who lives in this city. I have great 

 pleasure in introducing to you Professor James B. Rawnsley. 



Mr. Rawnsley : Mr. Chairman and ladies and gentlemen : The 

 gentleman that Mr. Patterson referred to as going to the hospital for 

 repairs was not taken there because of eating nuts. The cause of 

 the need for repairs was good food going into that man's stomach 

 and mixing up with a lot of refuse matter that he had been eating 

 at some previous time. 



Mr. Patterson : Almonds ! 



Mr. Rawnsley: I hope that there are no medical doctors in 

 the place or any butchers because if there are I am liable to go 

 through the door or window. The nuts that you people are growing 

 I hope will be the only thing, along with fruits and vegetables, that 

 will be eaten in the future. As Mr. Patterson said tonight, since God 

 put nuts and fruits and vegetables on this earth, those are what we 

 ought to use from the commencement of life. The nut is one of the 

 cleanest and most wholesome foods that is grown. I have tried it a 

 good many years and I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that 

 there is nothing so sweet, so good or so substantial. It does not take 

 much of a meal of nuts mixed with fruits to keep a person alive and 

 well and strong. The sooner you people that are growing nuts get 

 that into your minds and use it the sooner you will find it the best 

 advertisement by which to get new members into the association. 

 Show it yourself by using them. 



The President : I am mighty grateful to you for your words. 

 We are going to try and get through one more paper this evening. It 

 is by Mr. John Dunbar, Assistant Superintendent of Parks, Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., on the subject. Nut Trees in Rochester Parks. I have 

 great pleasure in introducing Mr. Dunbar. 



Mr. Dunbar : Mr. President, and ladies and gentlemen : I 

 picked up the program this morning and looking it over I was quite 

 surprised to see that I was down there for a paper. We have given 

 much attention for possibly twenty-five or thirty years to the estab- 

 lishment of an arboretum in the parks of Rochester of all the trees 

 that are hardy in the north temperate zone. I think that perhaps the 

 Rochester parks today stand next to the arboretum at Harvard 



