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ditions or the condition of the scions, for the scions of these two 

 varieties were equal to anything T had. In view of the fact that they 

 are botli very desirable nuts, I always carried a few scions and kept 

 placing them frequently as I placed other varietiese. Many Vests were 

 placed at the same time as the Fairbanks, which shows 73.3% catches. 

 The. one Vest that did catch, however, made a very thrifty growth, 

 showing that it is possible apparently to do well on the mocker nut. 



With the Weiker, a'bout the 15th of Jul}^, I put five scions on the 

 limbs and trunk of a tree about 1^ inches in diameter, the top having 

 been cut out, with three catches, 60%, against another lot of t6 with 

 100% failure and 23 more with 1.2% success. Such antics are diffi- 

 cult to understand. 



Many of the scions were put in the trunks of the trees; others 

 were put on the small branches with tlic splice graft. The scions 

 placed on the trunks, or the larger limbs near the trunk, apparently 

 did somewhat better tli.ui the splice grafts further out on the limbs. 

 In tile walnut and other sappy trees, however, the splice graft out on 

 the small limbs did better. 



It is of peculiar interest that all of the large trees from which the 

 lower limbs were sawed and the stubs grafted, the topmost limbs hav- 

 ing been left, designated as U.W.T., did badly. Wlvile in the case of 

 the five Hales, three had 100%. and two had 66.6% catches. These 

 two also had 100% catches but bugs ate the tender shoots and killed 

 three of them. These trees had the tops cut off last fall leaving only 

 a few lower lim'bs. Tlu-y were put in on July 20th after the sprouts 

 had well started on the trees. The sprouts were iu)t taken off but 

 their to))s were ])inched out. 'I'liesc grafts made a growth of from one 

 to two flit or more. At the same time a tre^ was trimimed (Hales 

 1) iu the record) ,iiul all the lowi-r limbs gr.ifted with Hales, leaving a 

 few top branches only. Tliirty-H\t' werr set ,iiid not a single one grew. 

 Tlif h)cation of this tree was l)ettfr than any of the fi^'e above referred 

 to, because a couple of those trees were standing on the top of a rock 

 where one would wonder how tliey could exist, and it was so hot when 

 1 placed the grafts that I had to quit .uid get out of the sun. in spile 

 of that 100% grew. 



A study of the above record leads to the conclusion that there is 

 very little difference in plant and animal cells and it seems clear that 

 certain old, underlying principles must 'be dealt with. I need not 

 refer to heredity because, while it is undoubtedly quite possible, per- 



