Of the Weschcke hickory nuts themselves, he wrote:  “This is practically identical with the Glover.  The Glover is usually a little larger but this varies in all nuts from year to year.  This is a fine nut and if it comes from Iowa, it ought to be propagated.  I suggest you keep the stock of it and propagate the tree for northern planting, that is for Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc., where most nuts grown here would not mature.”  A few years ago, I saw the Glover hickory nut for the first time and I also thought it much the same as the Weschcke in shape, as is also the Brill.

Because I did not know how to preserve the scions I had cut, they dried out during the winter to such an extent that they were worthless for spring grafting.  This meant losing a whole season.  The next fall I obtained more scionwood from Mr. Fobes and having kept it in good condition during the winter by storing it in a Harrington graft box shown by illustration, I was able to graft it in the spring.  However, these grafts did not take hold well, only two or three branches resulting from all of it and these did not bear nor even grow as they should have.  I was disappointed and discouraged, writing to Mr. Fobes that I did not believe the tree could be propagated.

[Illustration:  This drawing illustrates how to build a Harrington graft storage box]

In the fall of 1932, Mr. Fobes sent me a large box of scions and branches, explaining that he had sold his farm and, as the tree might be cut down, this was my last opportunity to propagate it.  Without much enthusiasm, I grafted the material he had sent me on about a dozen trees, some of them very large hickories and I was most agreeably surprised to find the grafting successful and more than one branch bearing nutlets.  These nuts dropped off during the summer until only one remained to mature, which it did in the latter part of October.  But I waited too long to pick that nut and some smart squirrel, which had probably been watching it ripen as diligently as I had, secured it first.  I made a very thorough search of the ground nearby to find the remains of it, for while I knew I would not get a taste of the kernel—­the squirrel would take care of that—­I was interested in finding out whether it followed the exact shape and thinness of shell of the first nuts I had examined.  I finally did find part of it, enough to see that it was similar to the nuts from the parent tree.

The grafts I made in 1932 have been bearing nuts every year since that time.  The Weschcke hickory makes a tremendous growth grafted on bitternut hickory (Carya Cordiformis).  The wood and buds are hardy to a temperature of 47 deg. below zero Fahrenheit, so that wherever the wild bitternut hickory grow, this grafted tree will survive to bear its thin-shelled nuts.  The nuts have a fine flavor and the unusual quality of retaining this flavor without becoming rancid, for three years.  The only fault to find with them