buds. The same
year the tree sent out its blossom buds, so it had no fruit the
following season. This slide shows one of the pests in the pecan
orchard, the twig girdler, at work. The insect deposits its egg under
the bark up at about that point, then goes down below girdles the twig,
and it breaks off, goes to the ground, and the insect comes out, goes
into the ground and comes out the next season. There are a good many
drawbacks that are occurring and more are to be expected the same as
with other fruit. There are probably no more setbacks to pecan growing
than there are to the growing of other fruit, but this is one of the
things. This orchard was set in land bordering the Flint River and at
the time this picture was taken the water stood at the depth of three
feet. It probably did no harm, because it didn't stay more than a week
or ten days. Sometimes it stays longer and in such cases it is a serious
matter. In Texas, floods come up like that into the branches of the
trees, so high in some seasons after the nuts are formed, that the nuts
deteriorate and fall to the ground. In such cases it is a pretty serious
thing. (Applause.)

The time for which the "scenic" was engaged having expired, the
delegates returned to the Court House and the regular program was
resumed.

The Chairman: We will next hear from Mr. Lake.

Mr. Lake: My topic, aside from the slides, was concerning the result of
the work at Arlington this year. It is all written out but I don't
propose to read the paper at this stage. I have not been a teacher and
lecturer for 25 years for nothing, and I don't propose to kill the few
friends I have among nut growers by talking them to death when they are
hungry and want to see something interesting. I will send this paper in
due time to the secretary, and give way now to Mr. Jones. I did want to
show you on the slides a few illustrations of cross fertilization
between the Japanese and the American walnut, but we will put those in
engravings and put them in the Northern Nut Growers' Journal, so that
you will see them there with better satisfaction. Now one or two words
about these Persian walnuts. These are eastern grown seedlings, the best
that I have been able to pick out. Here is an Oregon grown nut. That is
the ideal type for dessert walnuts. This is the Meylan. There is only
one better, and that is the real Mayette, of which we grow very few in
the United States, but we are growing considerable of the M