120 



stock. Growth slow Imt sure. 



68. Wild beak hazel. Xiits not so good as those of common hazel. 



69. Bitternut top-worked to Beaver. 



70. Hazel, patch-grafted here and there witli Bony Bush filbert. 

 The larger and darker leaves are Bony Bush. 



71. Leonard shagbark grafted on stock probabh- shagbark. Nut 

 very small, thin shelled, highest quality and keeps for four years 

 without becoming rancid. 



72. Sliagbark top-worked to Taylor variety, but only ii few grafts. 

 Too much work for a tree of this size. 



78. Pleas hybrid pecan on butternut stock. 

 71. Bitternut top-worked to Beaver. 



75. Here is a very interesting object lesson. No. 74 is a bitter- 

 nut top-worked to Beaver, and all doing well. The same day, with the 

 same graft, I top-worked this pignut. The pignut refused the graft 

 and died insulted. But another stock frou) the same root accepted 

 ]\Iarquardt. 



76. Bitternut stock accepting Marquardt pecan tardily. 



77. Here is another form of borer. I treat them in this way: Cut 

 away a little of the hole, pour in the chloroform and stop up the 

 hole with soap. That will kill all of tlie borers in the tree. 



78. Grafts of Laney hybrid hickory on bitternut. 



7!). Group of four fillierts — not blighting, but not tliriving tliis 

 year or last. Reason unknown. Soil is heavy clay hardpan near top. 

 Tof) swampy in spring. 



80. Taylor shagbark on bitternut. 



81. Tajdor shagbark on shagbark stock. 



82. Bitternut grafted to Tucado ])ecan. Grafts grew well for two 

 summers, but died in second winter. 



88. One jjoor graft of pecan on bitternut. 



8k Pleas hybrid pecan. 



8.5. Merribrooke chestnut grafted upon Chinese chestnut sprouts. 



Dk. Zimmehman: Have vou been able to bud chestnuts success- 

 fully ? 



Dr. Morris: Yes. 



86. Daviani filbert. 



87. Hybrid hazel. {C'oliinia x Americana^. 



88. Avellana hazel. Variety Contorta. 



89. Siebold walnut. Parthenogen. 



90. Hybrid chinkapin. (C. jiumila x C. dentata). Grafted to an- 

 other liybrid, but stock now blighting. 



91. One of a series of chinkapins, natural or hybrids, grafted over 

 to other hybrids or to the Merribrooke variety of American sweet 

 chestnut. Some are blighting. 



92. Original Bony-Bush hazel. Blighting moderately. Treatment 

 for blight not followed because of wish to note the degree of resist- 

 ance. 



