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Mr. Littlepage, have you any report from the Committee on Incorporation?

Mr. Littlepage: That is a matter that will require considerable thought
and attention. It will require attention from several standpoints, as
for example under what laws we might wish to incorporate, so I think the
committee will reserve its report to make to the Executive Committee at
some later meeting.

The Chairman: We have no other business, I believe, and will now retire
to the hall where we will have the lantern slide exhibition. The morning
session closes the meeting and we are to meet at two o'clock at the
Monument and from there go out to see certain trees in the vicinity. Mr.
Rush and Mr. Jones are to show us these and their two nurseries.

Mr. Lake: I would like to offer as a resolution, that the secretary be
instructed to make arrangements with the publishers of the American
Fruit and Nut Journal for the distribution of one copy to each member as
a part of his membership fee. The secretary will then be able to reach
the members in his published notices without special printers' troubles
of his own, and the members will be able to get some live matter right
along.

The motion was seconded and adopted, after which the executive session
closed and the members adjourned in a body to the Scenic Theatre, where
the regular program was resumed as follows:

The Chairman: We will have Mr. Rush's paper first.

THE PERSIAN WALNUT, ITS DISASTER AND LESSONS FOR 1912

J. G. RUSH, PENNSYLVANIA

The year just closing has been full of disasters both on land and sea,
though I do not wish it to be understood that I am inclined to be a
pessimist on account of these occurrences.

I wish to speak of a disaster which overtook the walnut industry in the
northern states. Early in the year we had an arctic cold wave which put
the thermometer from 23 to 33 degrees below zero. This cold wave
apparently did no injury to the walnut trees at the time but late in the
spring it was discovered that the wood cells were ruptured though the
buds and bark were uninjured. In cutting the scions in early April the
bark and buds seemed in good condition for grafting; but as the time
approached to do the work it was readily seen, by its changed color,
that the wood was injured, some scions of course more than others. Those
that were only slightly discolored were used in grafting. But as time
passed the unhappy resul