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and to hear how the people were succeeding. Some of them have writ- 

 ten me. 



Mr. Reeij: Possibly it would help if", when any of us here present 

 should chance to visit historic spots, we would get nuts from such places 

 and send them to Mr. Linton; from Gettysburg or any of those places. 

 We should each consider ourselves commdttees of one to get those nuts 

 and to deliver them to Mr. Linton. 



Mk. Bixby: I will see what I can do al)out it, and will get some of 

 the nuts today. 



Mr. O'Connor: I do not know how Mr. Linton would feel about 

 sending to different .schools some of the nuts that were given him bj' 

 the superintendent at Monticello, and in letting the children have a 

 little nursery, and the means to beautify their home towns, but I will 

 say that if you get the children started in a thing like this, you will 

 have the parents following up. 



]\Ir. Linton: There is another jjoint 1 wisli to mention. .Mr. 

 Dodig'c sent one bushel of the walnuts which he said were taken from a 

 particular tree that he admired. He thought it was the best variety 

 of all of them. That tree, a year ago. was struck by lightning; so he 

 requests that some of the trees produced from the nuts of that particu- 

 lar tree, be sent back to Mt. Vernon, in order that he may have some 

 seedlings from the original tree. It is a fact that those nuts pro- 

 duced the best yields of any that we planted in Michigan, showing that 

 the seeds from the best tree will bring the best results. 



ENCOURAGEMENT FROM FAILURES IN GRAFTING 

 Dr. G. A. Zimmerman, Piketown, Pa. 



After improving from an illness of several years, and feeling tired, 

 impatient and at times discouraged with progress in my physical con- 

 dition, last spring I secured a few bunches of scion wood and turned 

 to my old boyhood hobby for diversion; this time, however, by work- 

 ing on nut trees instead of fruit. In presenting the following at the 

 request of others. I do not claim any originality, but simply draw the 

 attention of interested parties to some possibilities and probabilities. 

 My results have been very variable and many of them show as success- 

 ful a failure as any one could possibly obtain. The scions referred to 



