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Telegram from Washington, D. C. 



To James S. McGlennon : 



Deeply regret my inability attend thirteenth annual meeting. Am 

 sure it will be great success and all will enjoy trip to your beautiful 

 city and surrounding country. The next few years will show fine 

 results of efforts our Association, and nut culture in north will take 

 on new life and result in planting thousands of acres trees. I hope 

 Washington will be selected as place for next annual meeting. 



. T. P. LITTLEPAGE 



Lincoln, Nebraska, September 5, 1922 

 My Dear McGlennon : 



Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be in your city 

 this week. I have been through your city five times in three years. 

 If I had known what you have there I should have stopped there 

 three years ago. Since it is impossible for me to be there at this 

 time I will save my coin to purchase trees and nuts for next year. 



Dr. Deming's wonderful discovery of a monster pecan tree in 

 Hartford, Conn., together with native pecans north of Burlington, 

 Iowa also two Iowa pecan trees growing in this city for twenty- 

 eight years, makes the field for pecan trees a very large one viz. 

 from the Gulf to the forty-first parallel. Tell Dr. Deming we trust 

 his wonderful discovery does not prove to be a pig-nut. 



Our opportunities in the north for growing nut trees I think 

 are wonderful. 



The association with you will be a great success. 



Sincerely, 



W. A. THOMAS. 



August 23, 1922. 

 Mr. James S. McGlennon, 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



Dear Sir : — 



I wish to thank you for your very kind letter of the eighteenth, 

 and beg to assure you that it would afford me great pleasure to at- 

 tend and meet you and others who are doing constructive work ■ 

 the cause of nut culture. Unfortunately it will not be possible for 

 me to do so. I have been on the sick list for the past few weeks 

 which with my eighty-five years has left me so weak that I could not 

 endure the fatigue connected with such an undertaking. 



I would much like to see the results of your work with filberts, 

 as I believe that is one branch of nut growing that can be made a 

 success. Some years ago I planted out some filberts and they grew 

 very well and tried to bear nuts. But unfortunately they had been 



