The appeal therefore is made to the owners of hardy nut trees that they drop a postal to the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C., stating that they desire a mailing box and frank for sending in a few specimens of the nuts which they believe to be of more than average merit.  The only expense necessary to incur will be in the price of the card, and in the trouble of collecting and packing the nuts.  Before mailing, the package should be plainly marked with the name and address of the sender, and a note should be inclosed giving information regarding the location, ownership, bearing habits, etc., of the tree from which the nuts were obtained.

If more convenient, the nuts may be sent to this association, which in any case will be apprised by the Department of all new varieties of apparent merit which may be brought to light.

However, no one should anticipate a great fortune as the result of any nut tree of which he may find himself the owner.  It is not possible for a variety to be of especial value, no matter how promising the parent tree may appear to be, until it has established proof of its adaptability and merit in other sections remote from that of its origin.  Except in rare cases it has been only after a variety of any kind of fruit has become well known by many who have tested it and spoken for it that it has become popular or in great demand.

Therefore, all there will be “in it” for you, if you chance to be the owner of a nut tree of merit will be the thanks of this Association and posterity and the probability of having the variety named in your honor.

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MR. LITTLEPAGE:  I should like to drop a word about the American Nut Journal published here at Rochester, N. Y. I would like to ask all the members of the Association to make as much effort as they possibly can to get new subscribers to the Journal.  I don’t own any stock in it, but I am talking purely in the interests of nut culture.  Without a magazine nine tenths of our work would be entirely useless because it would be lost to the public.  One of the duties of the members should be the support of the organ which puts forth the information for which this organization stands.

THE PRESIDENT:  Methods of propagating pecans, hickories and walnuts have been discovered and used, at times, for a century.  I know of a man who grafted them twenty years ago in New Jersey, but he left no records of his methods.  The Journal helps us to keep these records.

This association has a great variety of contributors.  We have with us men who work on the exceedingly practical end of propagation.  W. C. Reed is a combination of the student and the propagator.

HISTORY, DIMENSIONS AND CROP RECORDS OF PARENT NORTHERN PECAN TREES, AND NOTES ON THE OBSERVATION OF PROPAGATED TREES

W. C. REED, VINCENNES, INDIANA