cers and Committees 1953-54 4
State and Foreign Vice-Presidents 6
Constitution and By-laws 8
Call to Order, 44th Annual Meeting 11
Address of Welcome--Wilbur Wright 12
Business Session--Secretary's Report--Treasurer's Report 13, 14, 15
Blossoming Habits of the Persian Walnut--H. F. Stoke 18
President's Address--Richard B. Best 22
About Nuts--Ira M. Kyhl 28
Natural Variation Observed in Shagbark Hickory, Carya ovata
(Mill.) K. Koch. in Central New York--David H. Caldwell 29
The Control of the Hickory Weevil (Curculio caryae) 39
Round Table Discussion--What's Your Problem 43
The International Chestnut Commission and the Chestnut Blight
Problem in Europe, 1953--G. Flippo Gravatt 52
Rooting Chestnuts from Softwood Cuttings--Roger W. Pease 56
Evaluating Chestnuts Grown under Forest Conditions--Jesse
D. Diller 59
Panel Discussion--Chestnuts 62
Development of the Nut Industry in the Middle West--J. F.
Wilkinson 70
Some Aspects of the Problem of Producing Curly-Grained
Walnuts--L. H. MacDaniels 72
Late Rev. Paul C. Crath--L. K. Devitt 80
The Eastern Black Walnut as a Farm Timber Tree--John Davidson 84
The McKinster Persian Walnut--P. E. Machovina 89
Carpathian Walnuts in the Colombia River Basin--Lynn Tuttle 94
Walnuts and Filberts in Southern Wisconsin--C. F. Ladwig 95
Biology, Distribution and Control of the Walnut Husk
Maggot--F. L. Gambrell 98
Panel Discussion: The Persian Walnut Situation 104
Banquet Session--Resolutions Committee Report 109
Walnuts in Lubec, Maine--Radcliffe B. Pike 115
My Thirty Years Experience with Nut Trees--Carl Weschcke 116
Growing American Chestnuts and Their Hybrids Under Blight