ience in thinking I have temporarily
called this phenomenon "stereochemic parthenogenesis." Apparently the
propinquity of foreign pollen serves to stimulate a female cell into
division, although the pollen cell retains fixed molecular identity, and
does not fuse with the female cell. I need not bring up abstruse
questions of chromatin or of subatomic influence here.

At Stamford the bush chinquapins begin to blossom regularly about the
twelfth of June, irrespective of weather conditions. The tree
chinquapins blossom a little later, but the alder-leaved chestnut may
not blossom until July, later than the common American chestnut. The
bush chinquapins begin to open their burs very regularly about the
fifteenth of September; earlier than any other chestnuts. They bear at
an early age, sometimes in their fifth summer.

Grafting and budding is easily done among all of the chestnuts as a
rule, and this year I employed for the first time a large chinquapin
bush for top-working with the choice Merribrooke variety of the common
chestnut. Every one of the grafts caught, and some of them have grown
tremendously. This introduces an interesting question. May we graft the
common American chestnut upon bush chinquapin stocks and secure
precocious bearing? In that case we shall have trees like the dwarf
apple and pear trees that are readily pruned and sprayed.

The chinquapin is practically immune to the blight (_Endothia
parasitica_.) Easily blighting varieties of choice American chestnuts
may be grafted upon these blight resistant stocks in orchard form if my
experiment proves to be a success. It will not lessen the vulnerability
of the American chestnut, but dwarf trees will be within reach of the
horticulturist's pruning knife and spray outfit. Orchards of fine
varieties of the common chestnut may perhaps be maintained in this way
until the present epidemic of Endothia has expended its protoplasmic
energy, or until it has succumbed to microbic parasites of its own.

THE PRESIDENT: Are there any questions to put to Dr. Morris?

THE SECRETARY: I venture to say that a good many people have tried, in
the north, to raise the chinquapin, and I would like to have Dr. Morris
tell us what to do to get it to grow best, whether to buy the trees from
the nurserymen, or to plant the nuts, and just how to do it.

PROF. C. P. CLOSE: I would like to ask Dr. Morris about those
chinquapins that set without the application of pollen, whether t