ditions, it will take comparatively few years to properly evaluate 
its merits and faults. 
As to the pollination requirements of Littlepage we know 
very little as yet. It produces its catkins and sheds pollen before 
the pistillate blossoms become receptive. However, some of the 
pistillate blossoms appear to be receptive before all of the pollen 
is shed, so there is some possibility that it will prove to be self- 
fruitful to some extent. We hand pollinized the pistillate blos- 
soms in the Spring of 1944 with pollen sent to us by Mr. Reed, 
therefore we have no way of knowing whether the nuts that set 
were the result of this hand pollinizing or whether the result of 
natural pollination by its own pollen. In the Spring of 1945 it 
bore both staminate and pistillate blossoms and we did no pol- 
linizing, no nuts were set. However, the weather was so cold and 
rainy at that time that it was in no way a fair test. 
We have a good many other Crath Carpathian seedlings, 
some of which indicate as much hardiness as does the Littlepage. 
We hope that one or more of these will prove to be good and will 
blossom at the right time to act as a pollinizer for Littlepage. 
Others will be looking for a pollinizer for it also, so we can expect 
to solve this problem within a few years. 
When Will Trees of the Littlepage Be For Sale? 
You have noted that Mr. Reed, in his letter reporting on the 
Littlepage, says of the late Thomas Littlepage (in honor of whom 
this variety is named) : “He lived on the theory that it was better 
to get things out rather than to lose a lot of valuable time seeking 
to make doubly sure.” We agree with this. We believe it better 
to start putting trees of Littlepage out as soon as possible so that 
the further testing of it can be started with a few hundred trees 
rather than hold it back until we can flood the country with thous- 
ands of trees and then find that it has some serious faults. 
We have a few trees of Littlepage for sale this season, either 
for Fall 1945 or Spring 1946 planting. We should have had many 
more but the weather was very poor for Persian walnut grafting 
this past Spring. We got a very poor percentage of living grafts 
with all of our Persian walnut grafting. 
We will take orders for Littlepage trees at any time and will 
fill orders in the order we receive them. So if you order trees of 
Littlepage this season and we cannot fill it now, we will let you 
know as soon as we do have trees to fill your order and you can 
then verify the order or cancel it as you see fit at that time. Do not 
send any money until we notify you that we can supply the trees. 
We will not sell or give propagating wood of Littlepage to 
anyone. For the near future, at least, we will limit deliveries to 
not more than five trees to a customer. 
