to be more careful in selecting good, strong stock for that purpose, and 

 I think in tliat way we should have better success. 



Dr. Morris: Did you not perhaps cover the buds of your hickory 

 grafts too thickly with melted grafting wax.^ Might not that account 

 for your failure .'^ Hickory buds will burst their way through almost 

 any thickness of grafting wax, but when the paraffines are used with- 

 out pine gum admixture the paraffine over the buds is particularly apt 

 tb crack and to allow the graft to dry out. 



Mr. O'Connor: I did not cover the hickory grafts with melted 

 grafting wax at all; I simply put them in like apple grafts with ordin- 

 ary grafting wax. 



Dr. Morris: Practically all hickory grafts will fail under such 

 circumstances, but practically all hickory grafts will catch if they are 

 covered with melted grafting wax of the right sort, provided that the 

 scions and stock are also of the right sort. 



The Secretary: May we now have the President's address? 



The President: Before I begin I wish to call to your atten- 

 tion this pamphlet regarding the fifth Mid-West Horticultural Expo- 

 sition, to be held in the Hippodrome, Waterloo, Iowa. November 11 

 to 16, 192i. It will be under the auspices of the lown State Horti- 

 cultural Society, co-operating wi^ih its afflicted societies and the 

 Greater Waterloo Association. The exposition will cover the Mid-West 

 territory', from Pittsburgh to Denver. I wish especially to mention 

 the printed list of premiums on page 27. Mr. S. W. Snyder, Center 

 Point, is superintendent of this department. Cash premiums in De- 

 partment b-Nuts, amount to $289. In addition there will be a 

 grand sweepstakes, a trophy cup, donated by a member of the North- 

 ern Nut Growers' Association, for the exhibitor winning the greatest 

 number of points. Anyone interested could write to the secretary, 

 Mr. R. S. Herrick, State House, Des Moines, for a printed premium 

 list. If ail}' members of our Association have pet nuts of a variety 

 which they would like pushed to the front now is the chance. Snyder 

 Brothers are offering special premiums for new nuts unnamed and un- 

 propagated. 



The object of this association, as defined in its constitution, is "the 

 promotion of interest in nut-bearing plants, their products and their 

 culture," and as its name implies, in the northern part of this coun- 

 try. Without going into detail it seems to me that we have achieved 

 the object of our association, at least to the extent of making practi- 



