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only new knowledge but scions of new trees. For a long time he was 

 far and away the leading technician in the art of grafting nut trees. 

 He might easily have kept this art a secret, but he taught it far and 

 wide to all who would learn. 



He did not neglect the school, the church and the other local things 

 that must be maintained if our neighborhood is to remain a good 

 neighborhood. Mr. Jones was a man of balance, maintaining to a re- 

 markable degree the combination between business ability and activity 

 and the inclinations and habits of the scientific mind which loves 

 knowledge for its own sake. Many of us love knowledge and follow 

 it to the detriment of our business. Mr. Jones did not let scientific in- 

 terest or love of knowledge or love of experiment run away with his 

 business. While making a living he experimented as a scientist. 



Mr. J. F. Jones was a creator, attaining results of marked value. 

 He did much to improve the arts of grafting and budding nut trees 

 but his creative work is best illustrated by his remarkable success in 

 hybridizing hazels and filberts. After two or three years of fruitless 

 work he found that they would hybridize only one way, namely a 

 certain one had to be the male and the other the female parent. After 

 that was learned Mr. Jones grew many hundreds of trees from hybrid- 

 ized seed. These trees showed the marvels of hybridization. Hybrids 

 from identical ancestry ranged in size from 12 inches to 12 feet at 

 the same age, and some of them bore nuts that were much larger than 

 those of either parent. 



Mr. Jones had just about reached the point where he could have 

 begun large scale propagation with the idea of making much money 

 from his creations. As a matter of fact, however, this did not in- 

 terest him. He was more interested in making other discoveries, other 

 creations. He much preferred to breed plants rather than to propa- 

 gate and sell them. As an example of this, when the Northern Nut 

 Growers Association visited his place in 1926 he had a row of hybrid 

 hickories grown from, two of the best strains. These could of course 

 only become valuable by being grown to fruitage, a matter of years 

 and much space. Mr. Jones had no place or plans for the two hun- 

 dred little hybrid hickory trees but his creative instinct compelled him 

 to produce them just the same. 



The cordial hospitality of the Jones home was experienced by 

 nearly every person in America who is interested in growing nuts in 



