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ganized on November I7th, 1910, by the late 

 Professor John Craig, of Cornell University ; T. P. 

 Littlepage, Esq., of Washington, D. C; Dr. Wil- 

 liam C. Deming, of Wilton, Connecticut; the Author, 

 and others present at the 1910 meeting which was 

 held at the Botanical Museum, Bronx Park, New 

 York, on the invitation of Dr. N. L. Britton. Dr. 

 Britton called the meeting to order and stated its 

 purpose. The objects of the Northern Nut Growers' 

 Association had no direct relation to the commercial 

 interests of the subject. Its ideals related more par- 

 ticularly to the botanic values of the question. Sub- 

 jects like those of discovery and propagation of valu- 

 able nut trees with all the ramifications of the latter 

 subject engaged the attention of the members. Pub- 

 lic education and the interesting of colleges and 

 schools in the new problems relating to nut culture 

 formed a part of the work as planned. One of the 

 very serious duties of the Northern Nut Growers' 

 Association consisted in stating the terms of nut 

 growing scientifically and in correcting errors, many 

 of them widespread, which were being disseminated 

 by nurserymen who had been too busily engaged in 

 problems of distribution to give the right sort of at- 

 tention to the fundamental facts. The National Nut 

 Growers' Association, the Western Walnut Associa- 

 tion, and the California Walnut Growers' Associa- 

 tion have rendered particularly good service in de- 

 veloping the commercial features associated with 

 nut growing and splicing of loose ends of business 



