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the Maryland Experiment Station and others. 



Suggestions as to date and place for the 

 first meeting for organization and for topics 

 for discussion, exhibitions, ets., are requested. 

 Address : 



Dr. W. C. Deming 



Sept. 20, 1910 Westchester, N. Y. City. 



As a result of this a meeting was held at the Botanical Museum 

 in Bronx Park, New York City on Nov. 17, 1910 and organization 

 was effected. The proceedings of this meeting were printed in the 

 report of the meeting of the following year. Notes of this meeting, 

 taken by Mr. Geo. Nash of the Museum, have been printed also in the 

 report of the fifteenth annual meeting in 1924, for the second time 

 held at the same place. The persons present at the first meeting were : 

 Dr. Britton, Dr. Morris, Prof. Craig, Mr. Littlepage, Mr. Malcomson, 

 Mr. Henry Hales, Mrs. Joseph L. Lovett, Mrs. Yardly, Dr. Geo. 

 Knapp, Mr. C. A. Schwartze, Mr. Nash and Dr. Deming. 



The second meeting was held at the College of Agriculture, Ithaca, 

 N. Y., where John Craig was then professor of horticulture and where 

 Dr. Morris's collection of the edible nuts of the world is a notable 

 exhibit. 



The third meeting in 1912, and the 10th in 1919, were held here 

 in Lancaster, the work of Mr. Rush and Mr. Jones being then, as now, 

 the magnets. The fourth meeting in 1913, the seventh in 1916, the 

 eleventh in 1920 and the fourteenth in 1923 were held in Washington, 

 D. C, where the U. S. Department of Agriculture and its staff, Mr. 

 Littlepage's plantings, and other nut trees are the attractions. The 

 fifth meeting in 1914 was at Evansville, Indiana to see the Indiana 

 pecans at home. The sixth meeting in 1915 and the thirteenth in 

 1922 were held at Rochester, the home of the American Nut Journal, 

 to see the Vollertsen filbert nursery, the Thompson orchard of Persian 

 walnuts, the nut tree collections of the Rochester Park Dept. and the 

 many Persian walnut trees grown in that favored region. The eighth 

 meeting in 1917 was at Stamford, chiefly to visit Dr. Morris's nut or- 

 chard, which was again visited during the fifteenth convention in 

 1924. What should have been the ninth meeting in 1917 was never 



