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Hill, a small town fifteen miles nortli of Toronto. These trees were 

 about fifty years old and appeared to be perfectly hardy, as far as 

 growth was concerned, but owing to the northern location (43.45") 

 seldom prod^uced ripened nuts. The season of J919, however, was 

 longer and somewhat warmer than nio.st seasons, and a fully ripened 

 crop of nuts was gathered. The nuts are small with a thin shell and 

 a fine sweet kernel. The largest tree in the lot is about 3.5 feet tall 

 with a trunk diameter of 16" and a spread of branches equal to its 

 height. Another small plantation of pecans was found at Niagara- 

 on-the-Lake on the fruit farm of John Morgan. Some of these trees 

 were of grafted sorts and others w^ere seedlings. Both grafted and 

 seedling trees were making a good growth and appeared to be per- 

 fectly healthy. 



In r3S miuch as the pecan is native to a country having a longer 

 growing season and higher average summer temperatures than southern 

 Ontario, it is quite encouraging to find that these trees will even grow 

 here, to say nothing of bearing nuts. This would seem to indicate that 

 there are possibilities for some of the pecan-bitternut and pecan- 

 shagbark hybrids in southern Ontirio where the shagbark and the 

 bitternut grow quite freely. 



I also located two excellent shagbark hickories which have fair- 

 sized nuts with thin shell and fine kernels. One of these trees jjrows 

 about twelve miles west of Simcoe, Ontario, and produces quite a large 

 nut with a shell so thin that it can be easily cracked with the teeth. 

 This particular tree is about seventy feet tall and bore ten bushels of 

 nuts in one season. I have records of several other good hickories 

 and plan to inspect these at the earliest opportunity. 



Several more good English walnuts have been located and ex- 

 amined. Among these there is one tree over seventy-five years old 

 which at one time bore thirty bushels of ripe nuts. 



A few good heartnut trees have been located at various points. 

 One of these trees is about thirty-five feet tall, with a spread of nearly 

 sixty feet from tip to tip of branches. The present owner harvested 

 several bushels of good nuts in one season from this tree. 



I bought with my own funds a bushel of nuts from tin's tree and 

 sent them in lots ranging from .six to thirty to interested parties in 

 various parts of Ontario. Of course I know that this is not in ac- 

 cordance with the best nut cultural principals, but I thought it was 

 one way of getting nut trees .started'. If these nuts do not reproduce 

 true to type, they will serve as a good stock for budding or grafting 



