growing.

MR. CHASE: Thank you. I'd like to ask George Slate what he knows about
the Northern Star Persian walnut. Very hardy, and so forth? I think
maybe the members might be interested in that.

MR. SLATE: Spencer asked me to find out about the North Star _Juglans
Regia_, which was advertised in the Flower Grower. I called up the local
nursery that was selling them, and they said they got their seeds from
some Pomeroy trees in the western part of the state. I guess they are
just _Juglans Regia_.

MR. STOKE: Down in Virginia we have Virginia Thin Shell purchased
sometimes one place and sometimes another.

MR. CHASE: The secretary's office had an inquiry from the executive
secretary of the American Nurserymen's Association wanting to know if
those claims could be substantiated. I couldn't say on the basis of what
information I had, and I so told him. Apparently they, through their
organization, have stopped further advertising of that strain under the
claims that they made for it.

MR. KORN: We find our public at large, not only our members, seem to be
fascinated by the fact that the Persian walnut can be grown in this
latitude. So in speaking to them about it, when I am speaking to our
members, I try to say Persian walnut, but when speaking to the public at
large, they don't know what I am talking about so I come out flatly and
say English walnut. I tell them that we can't expect to grow the
California type, but we have a hardier type coming from the Carpathian
mountains or Germany or Russia or Holland, that can be grown
successfully in this part of the country.

MR. CHASE: I think that's the only approach you can use.

MR. KORN: That's the one I use, and I think it quickly helps people to
understand what you are talking about, and doesn't get them confused. If
you talked to them about Persian walnuts, they wouldn't know what you
were talking about, but if you say English walnuts, immediately they
understand, or should, at least.

MR. CHASE: I believe Dr. Crane meant that in our inner sanctum he would
prefer _Juglans Regia_.

DR. CRANE: I would like to ask if there are any growers here who have
propagated the Persian walnut on Eastern black walnut, that is,
experienced any trouble with graft union failure on them.

MR. STOKE: I haven't.

DR. MACDANIEL: Mr. Oakes?

MR. OAKES: I haven't.

MR. CHASE: No graft union failure on _Regia_ and _Nigra_.

MR. STOKE: And my experience is they come in much quicker