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As a matter of fact there is one gentleman in southwestern 

 Ontario who suggested to me that we form a Canadian branch of 

 the Northern Nut Growers' Association. 



The President : Don't do it. Just let us all be one. 



Professor Neilson : I think that's the better way to do it. 



The President : Thank you very much. Is Mr. John Watson 

 here ? 



Mr. Olcott: He asked me to state in his behalf that he really 

 didn't have much to say, he noticed your program was pretty well 

 filled up, and he asked to be excused. I hoped Mr. Watson would 

 say something here, but what would be more important would be 

 for him to speak before the nurserymen and induce them to take 

 more interest in our work. Mr. Jones is here and Mr. Watson was 

 here. Of all the nurserymen in this nursery center here that is the 

 only representation. 



Nursery catalogues list seedling trees for the most part. One 

 nurseryman wrote me the other day saying he was continually 

 receiving requests for nut trees but he couldn't supply them and 

 knew nothing about them. He asked me for a list of nurseries grow- 

 ing them. Nursery nut trees are not being produced in very great 

 quantities except by Mr. Jones, and they are unlisted in the nursery 

 catalogues, or only listed in an incidental way, very much as though 

 they were tacking on something in the way of citrus fruit, or some- 

 thing of that kind. 



A subject that this association might well take up in the enlisting 

 of the nurserymen's interest in this work. Mr. Brown, by the way, 

 of Queens, New York, was here last night. There was a third one 

 here, the head of a very large nursery down there. I talked with 

 him. He was here with Mr. Dunbar. He was interested mildly but 

 not from a practical point of view. I don't know what is the rea- 

 son for this lack of interest. I thought maybe Mr. Watson could 

 tell us. 



The President : This thought occurs to me in connection 

 with Mr. Olcott's remarks, that it might be desirable for us to send 

 a representative from this association to the annual meeting of the 

 national nurserymen, and let such representative put before the 

 imrserymen the possibilities of making the growing of nut trees in 

 their nurseries a real feature. 



Mr. Spencer: Mr. President, several years ago when I first 

 became interested in nut raising I wrote to the University of Illinois 

 which has really one of the great agricultural schools. It is espe- 

 cially famed for its soil fertility studies and for engineering. I 

 asked them what they were doing in the way of spreading informa- 

 tion in regard to nut trees, and if they could give me a list of persons 

 from whom I could purchase reliable stock. To my amusement they 

 said they had no list of nurserymen who produced nut trees. I 

 wrote back to them and said that it seemed to me that in a country 

 which is a nut country they ought to know the products of their own 



