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nuts. Mr. Wolverton, who is an extensive peach and sweet cherry 

 grower, kindly treated the nut growers to a delicious lot of peaches. 

 From this point the party called on Dr. John Smith, of Grimsby, and 

 there saw a fine seedling English walnut, the product of another 

 large tree nearby. Luncheon was then enjoyed at the Grimsby Inn, 

 after which the party drove over to see a plantation on Jas. Durham's 

 place near Grimsby East. At this place there are two large old bear- 

 ing English walnuts which have borne good crops for many years. 

 In the season of 1925, Mr. Durham sold $76.00 worth from these 

 two trees besides keeping a quantity for family use. There is also a 

 voung seedling grove of English walnut trees growing near these 

 large trees. Some of these young trees bear very good crops of fine 

 nuts. Close to the young trees a huge black walnut with a great 

 spread of branches was noticed. There are also some interesting nut 

 tree livbrids on this farm. One of these is supposed to be a cross be- 

 tween a Japanese walnut-butternut hybrid and the English walnut. 

 This tree has grown very rapidly but has not borne good nuts and 

 hence is only valuable as a study in genetics and as an ornamental. 

 The Japanese butternut hybrids referred to above are large, thrifty, 

 handsome trees and bear heavy crops of nuts somewhat like the butter- 

 nut. These trees have very luxuriant foliage and are valuable as 

 ornamentals as well as for the nuts. 



From Mr. Durham's place the journey was continued to the ex- 

 perimental station at Vineland where the party were welcomed by 

 Director E. F. Palmer. Mr. Palmer also gave an interesting outline 

 of the more important features of the work being done at this station. 

 On the grounds of the experiment station there is a small grove of 

 grafted varieties of English walnuts, Japanese walnuts, black wal- 

 nuts and several walnut liybrids. The black walnuts have done par- 

 ticularly well in growth and production of nuts. The best tree in this 

 group bore 197 nuts four years after planting, a yield that is con- 

 sidered very good indeed. There is also a goodly number of filberts, 

 a few Chinese chestnuts and walnuts and several hundred seedling 

 walnut trees which were planted for stock purposes. After leaving 

 the experimental station the party drove to Jordan Station to inspect 

 some heartnut trees on the property of Sylvester Kratz. One of 

 these trees is very large for its kind, being about 35 feet tall and 



