se on some of the trees the
buds stuck beautifully.

In June and again in August, with another class, we had the same
results, either with T-bud or shield bud or patch bud. Some of the
seedlings wouldn't take the buds at all. I can't think why one seedling
would take 100 per cent of the buds and another seedling growing right
by it wouldn't take any buds.

Mr. Weber: The oldsters here will remember Colonel C. K. Sober, one of
our former members who propagated what he later named the Sober's
Paragon chestnut. It was a grafted tree and apparently it was grafted
successfully on native stocks, and it grew until the blight got it.

Dr. MacDaniels: I am not talking about European or American, I am
talking about Chinese chestnuts.

Mr. O'Rourke: It may affect the nursery industry. The nurserymen are
looking to the Northern Nut Growers Association, Federal bureaus and
State experiment stations to guide them in the propagation of desirable
trees. We know now that the Chinese chestnut is becoming quite
prominent, is becoming quite popular in many sections of the country,
and many nurserymen are now getting requests to supply the public in
their states with Chinese chestnuts. They, in turn, would like to know
what they should do. If they sell Chinese chestnut trees which have been
propagated vegetatively and they only grow five, eight, 10 or 15 years
and then die, it's going to come back on the nurserymen. They should
like to know whether they should do that or whether they should rely
upon seedlings which they can develop into pure lines as best they may.

Now, that really is a serious question. I am wondering from what Mr.
Hardy has told us today if it may not be an understock problem, and if
it is an understock problem--if there are certain strains of understock
which are compatible with certain scions, possibly we should ask for
some investigations, some more research to be done in this direction.

Then possibly, on the other hand, we should also ask that certain
investigations be carried out so that we will have some idea of the
inheritable characters that may be "fixed" through seed selection. I
really think that this seed selection should be very seriously
considered, and that nurserymen in particular and the public in general
would benefit greatly by such consideration.

Mr. Hardy: Mr. Chase, may I make this suggestion: I think it is
something that a number of individuals could try, perhaps they should be
backed up