-than-average quality
are trees 5 and 18 with high total kernel per cent, and trees 8, 16, and
59 with high nut weight and an unusually high kernel weight. Other
trees, of interest as exceptional bearers, include tree 101 with large
nut weight, and tree 117 with both exceptional nut and kernel weight.
The outstanding tree in the study from the standpoint of cracking
quality of the nuts is tree 13, which has exhibited those
characteristics of thinness of shell and high kernel content sought for
in improved varieties. This black walnut selection is being propagated
at the Norris Nursery under the appropriate name of Norris.[14]

[Footnote 14: Kline, L. V. A method of evaluating the nuts of black
walnut varieties. Proc. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 41:136-144. 1942.]

Results from this study on the common black walnut have application in
the evaluation of the relative yield and nut quality of improved
selections suitable for use in the Tennessee Valley. This summary should
also prove of value to other workers dealing with black walnut in other
regions. It provides a basis for comparison, brings out the
possibilities for making selections, and emphasizes the importance of
nut production from improved varieties.

The 1946 Field Tour

By C. A. Reed

Attending the indoor sessions of the meeting for two days in Wooster,
visiting the Station orchards and plantings near town and contacting
personally some of the big men of the Staff together with the wives of
some, called for intensive attention on the part of everybody. It was
time exceedingly well spent and created a feeling in everybody that they
would like soon to return for another convention of the same kind. But
the good things that had been planned were not over when the delegates
left on the morning of the third day in the general direction of their
homes. No matter in what direction they went, hardly a route could be
found which did not lead near or through the home town of some nut man.

A few took opportunity to visit the planting near Wooster of the late W.
R. Fickes. A letter is before my eyes as these lines are being written
which was directed to Dr. W. C. Deming by Mr. Fickes on January 9, 1924,
in which he asked for information regarding certain kinds of nut trees
which he did not have. He mentioned having Beaver, Fairbanks, and Siers
hickory hybrids and asked about Weiker. He wanted to know about
Barcelona and White Aveline filberts. He said he had procur