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season's growth. A Terpenny had a crop the fourth year, the Griffin 

 liears annually since its fifth year, the Kirtland and Barnes since the 

 sixth. The Kentucky is a little slower. None of the hybrids have 

 yet borne with me but with others they have borne quite early. We 

 can be sure that the hickories will bear when top worked as soon as the 

 average apple tree. The size of the crop that any topworked hick- 

 ory tree will bear will depend on the size to which you have been able 

 to grow the tree and the habit of bearing of the particular variety. I 

 think, also, that there is good evidence to show that the size of the 

 tree, the size of the nuts and the size of the crop will depend largely on 

 the amount of care and the amount of plant food that is given the 

 tree. 



Two years ago I topworked a number of hickory trees for Mr. 

 Patterson of Wilkes-Barre, one of our members, and ]Mr. Patterson's 

 foreman put in a few grafts under my observation. This summer I 

 went to Wilkes-Barre to inspect my work. The foreman took me out 

 into a field where he had done a lot of grafting the year before and 

 I found that he had had a little better percentage of success than I 

 had' had. He had used the bark slot graft for everything, even when 

 the scions were almost as big as the stocks. Before this I had thought 

 that long experience was necessary for successful grafting. Now I see 

 that if vou have good scions, a Morris melter and a half hour of instruc- 

 tions, you will, have all the essentials for immediate success. Hickory 

 grafting is easy noAV. But let no one be contemptuous, for this ease 

 has come only after many years of experiment and countless failures 

 by many men. The former difficulty in grafting the hickory seems now 

 like a mystery. The history of its evolution would make a very pretty 

 story for the nut grower. 



