time no doubt many of the fruit buds were killed,
with the result that a very light crop of nuts was set in Spring of
1945.

Spring opened very early with a bright warm March starting growth before
usual time, even some trees set Pistillate bloom by the first of April;
then later in April it began raining, and rains continued most of the
Summer with much cool, cloudy weather with the result that most of the
nuts failed to properly fill, or mature. This was true of hickory nuts,
walnuts and pecans of both the named varieties and native seedlings.

While the 1945 nut crop was very light of both pecans and walnuts, I had
a few trees with fair crops, though none of the nuts had well filled
plump kernels.

Some of the first nuts to ripen seemed to have fairly well filled
kernels after gathering and kernels got dried out, they shriveled and
lacked flavor.

Walnuts seemed to suffer even worse than the pecans. I was not able to
find a walnut tree in this section that produced good planting nuts;
even farm crops suffered, especially corn of which much of the crop was
not of normal quality.

The spring of 1946 began very much as in 1945 with a very warm March,
again causing trees to start growth unusually early, and this spring,
pistillate bloom was visible on some pecan trees in the last days of
March. This weather condition remained until about the middle of April
when cool rainy weather set in lasting for a month with frosts and light
freezes as late as May 10th, which took all the nut crop in this section
with the exception of a very few walnuts, and these were of very poor
quality.

Another very peculiar thing happened in Spring of 1946. The Posey and
Giles varieties, both of which are usually heavy bloomers of Stamen
bloom, failed to set a single catkin this spring, while trees of other
varieties growing near them set heavy crops of catkin bloom.

The behavior of nut trees in this section in the past two years, both of
which have been unusual seasons, is evidence that nut crops are subject
to weather conditions, not only of the present, but of previous season
as well.

Nut Tree Notes from Southwestern Ohio

Harry R. Weber, Cincinnati, Ohio

Influence of Stock on Scion

At my farm home in the northwestern part of Hamilton County, Ohio, at
about 800 feet elevation, on clay soil, the Carpathian walnuts commence
growth too early in spring for their own good and my comfort, well
knowing what lurking Jack