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from there East. In the South it has succeeded. It is subject to a 

 peculiar disease, a sort of witch's broom or rosette. I know of an 

 orchard in Georgia of 100 acres or more that was discontinued en- 

 tirely because of the disease and the uncertain bearing habits. Those 

 nuts came from the Parrys of New Jersey. There are no parts of the 

 country where they have not been given a trial. 



A member then asked for data on Canada, to which Mr. Neilson 

 replied: The heart nut, seedling trees, has been grown without any 

 injury at Ottawa. I have been told there was a heart nut tree in 

 jNIontreal, but I cannot vouch for that statement. Mr. Gellatly has a 

 lot of them in British Columbia. In Ontario the northernmost place 

 where I have seen a heart nut tree is 2.5 miles north of the city of 

 Oshawa. Oshawa is roughly 20 miles east of Toronto. 



In the western part of the province I cannot say anything about 

 it, but I know they have been growing up around Collingwood and 

 Owen Sound on Georgian Bay. I have been told that seedlings from 

 the heart nut have grown as far north as Haileybury and they stood 

 four winters at least without any injury, then were destroyed by fire. 

 I think the heart nut will grow, from information that I have, in this 

 province in any place that the black walnut can grow. They grow away 

 down east of Montreal and as far north as North Bay, which is about 

 on a line with northern Lake Huron. I sent some heart nuts to the 

 Manitoba Agricultural College and they were planted, but somehow or 

 other the trees that came from that planting are not heart nuts, ac- 

 cording to the foliage. 



Mr. Gellatly: They were positively black walnuts. Bally River 

 Nurseries in Manitoba have some heart nut trees growing there. 



Mr. Neilson : In Bally River it gets 40 below zero in the winter. 



Mr. Bixby: I have been informed that in England it is quite 

 usual to eat the filbert green. 



Question: Has it a different flavor? 



Mr. Bixby: I have eaten plenty of them green from bushes, and 

 they taste kind of green. It is not as pleasing to me as the dried nut. 



