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raise hybrids from the black walnut and the English walnut? There 

 is no difficulty about the crossing, and now with a sufficient number of 

 specimens, we can get enough with the hardiness and vigor and fruit- 

 fulness of the black walnut with the quality and thin shell of the English 

 walnut. So I went to work to have hybrids made, and now have several 

 hundred growing. I picked the pollen from the English walnut and 

 fertilized the blossom of the black walnut, and took the pollen from a 

 black walnut and fertilized the blossom from the English walnut, and I 

 have these trees growing now. If I can get out of three or four hundred 

 specimens, one tree that has the hardiness and vigor and prolificness of 

 the black walnut, with the quality of the English walnut, I will have 

 lots of fun, but you see I will get nothing as an illustration, because 

 the moment you get to the field of hybridization, you are outside of this 

 matter. I do not think you can go by the law. It is like a great many 

 other laws, the spirit may be good, but the letter of the law you can- 

 not hold to. Now, right in this line, we have Dr. Evans of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture who has a paper on "Experiments in Plant Acclima- 

 tization in Alaska," to present later and it may throw some light on this 

 subject. 



Here is a paper on "Developing Hardy Fruits for the North 

 Mississippi Valley," by Mr. Samuel B. Green. Mr. Barron, our Secretary, 

 will read that paper. 



Gentlemen, I regret that I must leave you now, but I would ask 

 Mr. Siebrecht to take the chair. 



Mr. Siebrecht takes the chair. 



