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of Toronto I happened to see an enormous crop of large nuts on a 

 beech tree. I also looked over in this yard and I found there that 

 tliis tree was in a pig pen. 



Mr. Neilson: I believe, Mr. Bixby, that you have opened up 

 one of the most important fields of work in nut culture. It will take 

 a long time to get definite results but to my mind it is a most im- 

 portant and much needed line of work, and I sincerely hope you will 

 be able to graft that idea on to the pocketbook of some of our very 

 wealthy men, whether on this side of the line or in the U. S. I agree 

 with you that the investment would yield dividends. 



Some of you will undoubtedly be interested to learn that a start 

 has been made along the lines of a nut arboretum in Canada. The 

 Welland Ship Canal has 5500 acres of unused land along the right 

 of way. They have decided to plant the major part of that in trees 

 and they are going to feature nut trees. They have already made a 

 very good start in getting seedlings of our very good varieties from 

 the Niagara district and from other parts of Ontario. I believe they 

 have about 29,000 seedlings of nut trees of different kinds that they 

 are going to plant out in the very near future. 



Mr. Pratt, Boys' Training School, Bowmanville: I have been 

 greatly interested in this question of the opening up of a nut arbore- 

 tum, particularly so as we have a sort of nucleus of an arboretum at 

 Bowmanville. The government has set aside 50 acres to be used for 

 arboretum purposes and the Toronto Horticultural Association is in- 

 teresting itself in securing trees and shrubs for that land. It has 

 occurred to me that the use of nut trees would very well work in with 

 that scheme. Professor Neilson has done more than anyone else in 

 Ontario to further the interest of nut culture. I would like to see 

 some move made to establish an arboretum on a large scale. It seems 

 to me that if people could come and see nut trees growing it would 

 increase their interest in that subject in this province. We have the 

 land there and a large number of boys to take care of the trees, and 

 if there is any possibility of starting a project of that kind we would 

 be glad to co-operate with you. 



Dr. J. Russell Smith: I would just like to say a few words 



