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Mr. Hershey: I was down at Petersburg, Virginia, at Mr. 

 Roper's nursery. He said: "Did you ever see an English walnut 

 sprout on a black walnut.^" There was a two-year limb of English 

 walnut w'hich came out of the black walnut stock. I said: "Sure 

 enough it will come if you had put a bud on it." He told me that 

 bud had lain there seven years before it actually started to push. 



Lady Member: Do you think the audience would be interested 

 in the remark you made to me about bleeding from that tree.'' 



Mr. Gellatly: In cutting back I experimented with tapping, 

 instead of letting all the sap flow from the wounded limbs and run 

 back down the tree trunk, setting up fermentation. 



Mr. Hershey: Don't you cut your trees back a week or two be- 

 fore you graft them? In grafting, if I have a stock that will not stop 

 bleeding at the end of two weeks I take my knife and cut away. I 

 am speaking of small stocks. 



Mr. Gellatly: I think it is worthy of trial. It is worth while 

 to tap the tree and drain the sap just like the maple tree. 



The Chair: In New Hampshire they used to make sugar out 

 of butternut sap. 



Professor Neilson read the following extract from a letter of Mr. 

 David Gellatly, a brother of the speaker: 



"As a message to the convention, the writer would like to say that 

 he is positive from the results of his twenty-five years of experi- 

 mental work in nut culture, that the commercial possibilities in 

 Britisli Columbia, for filberts and chestnuts, are assured. The present 

 varieties of the English walnut, however, do not seem to equal filberts 

 and cliestnuts in hardiness; though the English walnut has excellent 

 commercial possibilities on the coast and in the extreme southern 

 portion of this province." 



Mr. J. U. Gellatly: My brother has done quite a bit of propa- 

 gating and a lot more experimental work in cross pollenation than I 

 liave myself. He has several trees which are now bearing and pro- 

 ducing nuts as a result of cross pollenation. One tree, which came 

 into bearing this year, when I left had three nuts about two and a 

 half inches in diameter. 



Question : What did the tree look like ? 



Mr. Gellatly: It shows English and Japanese, and the flowers 

 are something new, different in shape from either the English or the 



