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other things. They have some bUght but continue year after year to 

 bear heavy crops of nuts. 



The President: Mr. Bartlett, have you any remarks on the 

 subject? 



Mr. Bartlett : My experience has been very similar to that of 

 Doctor Morris. I have visited possibly a hundred places and have 

 seen hazels growing, some of which have probably been there sev- 

 enty-five years. In talking with the people connected with the place 

 I have often heard said, "Why, years ago we used to have hazels, a 

 great many hazels here, picked maybe a bushel at a time, but the 

 best varieties have died, and what we have left are worthless." Or 

 perhaps, " There is only one bush left and we don't get any hazels 

 now." Apparently the purple hazel is freer from blight than most 

 of the other imported varieties. I have seen the blight in these 

 places. I have seen branches from three to four inches in diameter 

 that were attacked with blight and were still growing but were not 

 fruiting very much. I know a very few places where hazels are 

 grown within fifty miles of New York, and I know of some places 

 where they are getting some nuts. But the general impression is 

 that the European varieties will be attacked with blight and killed.- 



I have seen bushes that have been attacked by blight where the 

 roots are alive but sending up very weak shoots. That is probably 

 through neglect of stocks. Certain of those that I have raised, five 

 or six years old, are absolutely free from blight. Most of the older 

 trees that I have seen around have blight in some form or other. 



Mr. Bixby : Doctor Morris' remark as to what Mr. Hicks says 

 of giving up attempting to grow hazels because the blight would 

 take them, seemed to me very appropriate in view of an observation 

 I made on Mr. Hicks' place last fall. I found there a large hazel 

 which was probably twenty-five feet high and bearing a fair crop of 

 nuts. Mr. Hicks told me that he had brought that tree from Ger- 

 many many years ago — I think it was over twenty years ago — 

 and that that was the only one left out of a lot. Now if other Euro- 

 pean hazels had been killed there with the blight and this one was 

 left there was apparently a blight-proof hazel in that lot. 



I have seen a good many hazel bushes affected with blight, but 

 I have not seen any since I went with Doctor Deming up to Bethel. 

 I have seen no blight since then though I have looked for it when- 

 ever I have been where there were European hazels. I examined 

 that tree in Mr. Hicks' nursery very carefully and found there was 

 no evidence of blight. I feel as the other speakers do who have 

 expressed themselves, that we have little to fear from the hazel 

 blight; that if it does appear in the nurseries we can control it by 

 cutting out the blighted portions. 



Mr. Pierce: In northern Utah I have a number of bushes of 

 the foreign and the American hazel and they are ten years old. So 

 far I have not seen any evidence of blight. 



