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Oil tr,iiisi)];mtcd liickorifs. however, about all the information of 

 which I know is as follows: The late Mr. J. W. Kerr, of Denton, Md., 

 inaiiv years ago bought a num'ber of shagbark hickories from a nur- 

 sery, set them out and noted that the time that elapsed before they 

 bore was about 25 years. Mr. Rush's Weiker tree, which bore in 1 1 

 years after being set out, cut down this time materially. 



A Kentucky hickory on my place set out in the fall of 1917. flow- 

 ered this year, but I had no 2iollen with which to fertilize the blos- 

 soms, and the nutlets dropped off. A young shagbark seedling set in 

 its 23resent locition in the fall of li)l!) and grafted to Barnes this 

 spring, also set a nut. but this dropped oft" like those on the Ken- 

 tucky and ajsparently for the same reason. It would certainly seem 

 as if under favorable conditions, the transplanted hickory is not going 

 to be anywhere near as slow as feared in coming into bearing. 



Walnuts — A Royal and a Paradox walnut each supposed to be 

 grafted trees with scions from Burbank's original trees, bloomed this 

 year, and the Royal has a number of nuts on it. The Paradox has 

 hten here a \'ery nuicii shorter time, not over two or three years; so 

 ])(rlia])s it is too soon to be expecting nuts. The Paradox is said to 

 he a ver\- shv bearer, setting nuts onh^ occasionally. ,ind then but few; 

 still, one of my Paradox trees which is not over three feet higih, blos- 

 somed full. It would seem as if it might pa}' to study this tree and 

 see if the sterility or fancied sterility of this tree could not be over- 

 come by seeing that proj^-r pollen is at hand at the right time. A 

 Cording walnut, a hybrid between the English walnut and th<' .Japan 

 vvalmit not (|iiitc :! feet high, is bearing a nut this year. 



(ii! A K'l'i X(i Perhaps the most interesting thing to be related is the 

 rcsull of allcnipts to (U^erniine the species of hickories best suited 

 as stock Cor I he fine \arieties of hickories lh;it we have. In preparation 

 Cor this and through the kindness oC Mr. Henry Hicks of VVestbury, 

 L. 1., over 100 each of hickory trees oC several species were obtained 

 and set out in the fall of 1919. They were in fiiU' condition for graft- 

 ing this spring. There are some fifteen species of hickories native 

 in the United States. The fine varieties of hickories that we have 

 which are generally sui)posed to be largely shagbarks may prove to be 

 nuich better .adapted for grafting on some stocks than on others. A 

 knowledge of this will prove to be of great value in top working. The 

 grafting was done by Dr. Deming, on May 29, 30, 31 and June 1 of 

 this year, 31 grafts being set on shagbark stock, 52 on moekernut, 53 



