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the trees did not bear^ while mine did, it just chanced that they were 

 too near alike. We find that maybe one tree is doing most of the 

 pollenation for the bunch, and if that tree was removed you would not 

 get any crop to speak of. One tree in our own block was a prolific 

 pollenizer. 



Question: Most of the trees are of one variety? 



Mr. Gellatly: That has everything to do with it. You might 

 never have bearing if you did not get pollenation from some outside 

 source. 



JNIr. Frank H. Frey: May I ask if the hazel or filberts are 

 natives of British Columbia? 



Mr. Gellatly: The wild hazel is native. 



Member: I was luckier than Mr. Spencer. I received some 

 seedlings from Rochester. One has four nuts on this year, the three 

 others have one each. 



Another Member: They were pollenated before you got them. 



First Member: Yes I think they were. The catkins were on 

 them when I got them. 



Mr. Gellatly: I think your crop was due to the fact that your 

 trees were seedlings and each one different, 

 the top of the tree and you layered the sprouts that came up afterward? 



The Chair: When you layered the Japanese walnut you cut off 

 the top of the tree and you layered the sprouts that came up afterward? 



Mr. Gellatly: Yes, the second year. 



Chair: And the roots grew not from the second bud that was 

 covered but from the third? 



Mr. Gellatly: Yes, from the third and fourth back from the 

 end of the layered tip. 



Question: Did the roots come out from the buds or between 

 the buds? 



Mr. Gellatly: The bud was on top and the roots came out 

 directly below. 



Question: Did it produce a tree on those joints or did a shoot 

 come up ? 



Mr. Gellatly: There was only one shoot from a bud. Just a 

 few days before I left home the tree was making a lot of new roots. 

 The Chair: What time of year did you layer it? 



Mr. Gellatly: Early in the spring, this past spring. 



