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we find this O'Connor nut is not hardy enough for certain sections 

 of the country. This Persian walnut before you is a seedhng, too 

 you know, from nature. 



So it is through seedUngs that we are going to get better fruit. 

 I believe that Mr. Jones's offer is a very good thing. But I sug- 

 gest that we send these seedlings out with the understanding that 

 they are seedlings and that we don't know what they will produce. 

 If the new member will plant them and take care of them (and we 

 should give a little instruction as to how they should be planted) in 

 a few years, seven or eight if it is a peran, he should see it coming 

 into fruit. 



I would like to say that if you will dynamite the hole with 

 a one-half stick of twenty per cent, dynamite, or, if you are afraid 

 to use the dynamite, dig a large hole so as to give these young 

 roots a chance to spread, a grafted tree will come into bearing in 

 three years. I have seen them do it down there with us in Mary- 

 land and I believe they will do the same thing anywhere else. 



The President : I would like to hear from Mr. Vollertsen 

 on the subject. 



Mr. Vollertsen : I haven't a great deal of confidence in 

 seedlings. As a general thing we find all the nut trees are inclined 

 to go back to their original type. If we take our filberts, even the 

 best varieties, the chances are that they will go back to the European 

 type that they originally came from. I have proven it time and 

 again on the farm down there. I don't think it wise for this associ- 

 ation to send out seedlings. 



The Secretary : Mr. President, in order to bring this ques- 

 tion to a head, I move that Mr. Jones's offer be accepted and put 

 in to practice if a suitable plan can be devised and carried out in 

 the estimation of the executive committee. 



Seconded and carried. 



Mr. Olcott : Mr. President, I wonder if the suggestion of 

 Mr. O'Connor is clearly appreciated. It was barely suggested in 

 his talk but he did not seem to clinch it at the end. As I under- 

 stand his idea it was that this plan of furnishing a tree as a premium 

 might well be accompanied by an offer of a prize for results, which 

 would be an added inducement to membership. 



The Secretary : I will see that that point is considered by 

 the executive committee. 



I wish also to say that Mr. McGlennon, if I understand him 

 aright, has offered to get one hundred members in the ensuing year 

 if the others present will get ten each. 



The President: That's right. Doctor. 



The Secretary : I don't know just which comes first, whether 

 Mr. McGlennon is to get one hundred members and then the rest 

 of us to get ten each ; or whether we are to get ten each and then 

 Mr. McGlennon is to get the others ! 



