town. Now, below that
isothermal line there is a little peninsula south of Chestertown, in
Kent county, a little peninsula there--a little long neck that runs out
into the bay below Chestertown--where they have never had any peach
yellows, and yet at Chestertown the trees have always been affected by
peach yellows, and it is probable that it will be found, if the almond
is affected by peach yellows, that the same laws apply to it. That is,
south they will have the yellows, and north they will not. Now, at
Vincennes, I suppose that they are north of the yellows line for
peaches. Do your peach trees have peach yellows?

MR. M. P. REED: No, sir.

DR. STABLER: Perhaps you are north of it, then. If so, the almond hasn't
been tried out as to yellows.

THE PRESIDENT: This association is greatly indebted to Dr. Morris, who
helped to get it together, for his indefatigable searching of the
corners of the earth for specimens, species and varieties of trees in
his ambition to get to his Stamford place all of the varieties of
nut-bearing trees. Several of our members have taken a little interest
in the question of the hazel-filbert family. Dr. Morris has taken a lot
of interest. Last year he gave us a most exhilarating presentation of
the subject, and he is this year going to give us some brief notes on
the progress of his knowledge concerning the hazels and filberts. Dr.
Morris.

DR. MORRIS: Just a word, in order to start the discussion. I have tried
to work out during the past year two or three points that came up for
discussion last year. I stated that in Connecticut the common American
hazel would probably not become a horticultural proposition for the
reason that the main stock seldom lives more than seven or eight years,
and then dies. New stolons, starting from the root, make abundant new
stocks. In that way, dying at the center, and growing at the periphery,
like a ring worm, one plant may extend so widely as to drive cows out of
the pasture lot. (Laughter). Dr. Deming understood me to say that it
spread so "rapidly" as to drive the cows out of a lot. I said "widely,"
not "rapidly." (Laughter). For that reason a plant of our common hazel
bears a few nuts about the third year; it bears a good crop about the
fourth year and sometimes in the fifth year. It then begins to die and
is gone by the seventh or eighth year, while new stolons, coming up on
all sides, are ready to perpetuate that rotation. That, at least, is
ordina