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like them to be distributed among members of this association. Mr, 

 Jones has 300 or 400 of the Wang trees which he proposes to sell as 

 seedlings. Others will be used as stocks for grafting varieties of 

 regia. 



Dr. Morris has already referred to the Chinese chestnuts. Mr. 

 Dorsett. of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has recently arrived 

 in China for a two-years' tri}D. He will doubtless send many chestnuts. 



Another particularly interesting group of nut trees is a lot of hazel- 

 iilbert hybrids produced by ]Mr. Jones. These are between the Rush 

 and the Barcelona, or other European varieties. He now has plants 

 three to five years of age in bearing. They average as high as a man's 

 liead. Practically all are in bearing with attractive clusters of nuts, 

 and some are fruiting heavih'. The Rush variety, as most members 

 know, is a native hazel of unusually jDrolific habits of bearing. The 

 nuts are of fair size and quality. 



Recently I have seen some interesting pecan trees in the East. 

 Two of these are on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, one in the out- 

 skirts of Easton and the other at Princess Anne; the former is a trifle 

 the larger, measuring 1-5 ft 5 inches in girth at breast height, the latter 

 ineasurins: 4 feet and 2 inches at the same distance and estimated to be 

 ] 10 feet high. It was grown from a nut said to have been planted in 

 ] 800. Tlie nuts from these trees are small but well filled and much 

 appreciated by their respective communities. • 



The Presidext: We have the secretary down for a paper. 



The Secretary: This paper opens a symposium on topworking 

 liickorv trees. 



