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to ground nuts, and from ground nuts to potatoes; but the subject^ 

 bearing as it does on the origin and history of cultivated plants, is one 

 which lias great attraction for me, and I hope it may have been of 

 interest to the members of this association. 



Professor C. P. Close, Pomologist, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 

 spoke as follows : 



Mr. Cxose: The subject I had intended to speak on was "Exten- 

 sion AVork in Nut Grovring." Many of 3'ou know that T am jjutting 

 in most of my time on the fruit end of extension work, but I am also 

 doing some extension nut work. I was hoping that there would be 

 representatives from many of the states here, because I wanted' to en- 

 courage them to get in touch with the state extension men, to work up 

 interest in nut culture. 



My talk will be very brief, but I would like to mention that very 

 few of the states as yet are doing extension work with nuts, especially 

 in the North. Some work is being done with pecans in the South. 



I have been astounded in talking with the landscape men in the 

 Nortli to find that they have not considered nut trees as ornamental 

 trees. But after I mentioned that a walnut or a hickory or a pecan tree 

 is an ornamental tree, and just as nmich so as the elm. the oak, or the 

 maple, they thought it would' be a good' idea to use them and agreed 

 to recommend the use of nut trees as shade, lawn and roadside trees. 

 Then I suggested the filbert for clump j)lanting as an ornamental. 1 

 hope in the future that nut trees and filberts will be used more ex- 

 tensively by tht' landscape extension men in their work throughout the 

 country. 



In most of tlie states there are fruit extension specialists but only 

 an occasional landscape extension specialist; so I try to interest the 

 fruit men in the planting of nut trees, aiul a few of them are doing 

 this, particularly in Indiana, where the fruit extension specialist has 

 been interested in having pecan and English walnut trees planted in 

 school yards. It seems difficult to get people to comprehend and prac- 

 tice nut tree growing and to understand the various uses of nut trees. 

 We can judge from the sinall audience at this meeting that there are 

 not enough people interested in nut growing. In my journey through- 

 out the country I occasionally run across men interested in growing a 

 few nut trees, and I try to induce them to become members of this 

 association ; but it seems to be a hard thing to do. 



