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use for food, holiday nuts, all-year-round nuts. Now I believe that 

 those nuts can be raised right here and we can pocket that money 

 instead of leaving it in Europe. 



I was a very small child when my father went to Philadelphia 

 to visit the Exposition in 1876. While he was there he picked up a 

 few walnuts which had dropped from a tree in front of his lodging 

 house and brought them home and planted them. A very few years 

 after he amazed us all by taking a load of nuts to Buffalo and obtain- 

 ing more money for them than the hired man and I did for a large 

 load of fruit. 



At one time I put out some English walnuts in a cemetery as a 

 memorial orchard and the trees are now doing fine. The other 

 night my wife and I strolled over and looked at them and when we 

 were on our way back we passed a neighbor's house where there 

 were a number of maple trees on the lawn. I said to my wife, 

 " Those maple trees are fifty years old, and there by the side of his 

 lawn is a chestnut tree that is forty-four or five years old." She 

 made the remark, " Those English walnut trees over there cast a 

 much more beautiful shade than those maples," and it was true. 

 1 think Mr. McGlennon saw them. 



The President : Yes ; that's so. I thank you very much, Mr. 

 Pomeroy. 



Mr. G. H. Corsan, of Toronto, Canada, is known as the " Cana- 

 dian Johnny Appleseed." Mr, Corsan goes about the country and 

 when he can find nuts and seeds of what he thinks are good trees and 

 plants he gathers them up and arranges to distribute them. If Mr. 

 Corsan will give us about ten or fifteen minutes I should certainly 

 appreciate it very much. 



Mr. Corsan : Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen : Our friend 

 here called me Johnny Appleseed, I suppose because I went around 

 among my friends who had gardens and said, " Let me plant this," 

 and I would plant a nut tree. I said, " Why don't you plant some- 

 thing with a utility value as well as a thing of beauty?" I said, 

 " Why not plant something that will not only grow rapidly and cast 

 a splendid shade but that will also return you something in the way 

 of food?" 



I first devoted twelve acres to the culture of nut trees. I after- 

 wards added four more. I just planted seedlings. In the year 1912 

 I joined the Nut Growers' Association and I set out a hundred 

 chestnut trees. When I found the blight was in them and I cut them 

 all down but two. I have those two now and last year I gathered a 

 peck of very large chestnuts from them which caused the Ontario 

 government to take notice of what I was doing. 



I bought a great many other trees, among them some of Mr. 

 Pomeroy's. I had a hard fight with Pomeroy's trees. They would 

 die down one year and grow a foot or a foot and a half the next and 

 then die down again. But each year they increased a little in size 

 and now they are over my head and are not dying down at all. 



