tion here in my own planting. I believe this to be a
good home for any good chestnut. No blight is showing to date in either
my seedlings or grafted ones.

I live on rather deep, fertile upland, and am quite hopeful of good
results from many of the Northern pecan varieties that I am trying. The
oldest trees I have are only five years old, on small seedling stocks
and hardly old enough to yield a crop for at least another five years.
Major, Greenriver, Busseron, and Fisher are my oldest, and are making
rapid growth. Stuart, of the Southern group, is bearing quite well for
my friend, Lewis Edmunds, a few miles southwest of me, and he says it
matures its nuts well before frost, but insects cause a goodly part of
the crop to fall prematurely.

I have quite a collection of the better known grafted shagbarks on my
woodland. These are mostly on wild shagbark stocks. They are all growing
well, but I have had no nuts from them as yet. Grainger is the fastest
grower of the lot.

To make my nut tree project complete, I have quite a long row of
filberts and hazels, set hedge row fashion, which include quite a list
of varieties. Those that bear quite regular and heavy crops include four
"Jones Hybrids," Winkler hazel, two un-named hazels, and Barcelona
filbert.

I have persimmons, too, both American and Chinese named varieties. My
Chinese are young and not bearing yet, but doing well. Kansas and
Josephine are my choice of the natives.

I am trying Millwood and Shessler honeylocusts for the first time this
year. They are beautiful grafts, and I am looking forward to the
pleasure and profit of adding them to my hill cow pasture in a year or
two.

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President Davidson: Thank you, very much, Dr. Rohrbacher. We have 15
minutes before the next order comes on the program. Suppose you take a
recess right now.

(A recess was taken.)

(Mr. William J. Wilson from Georgia showed moving pictures of his pecan
orchard.)

President Davidson: The next order of business, we will now hear a
report of the Committee on Black Walnut Standards and Judging by Dr. L.
H. MacDaniels.

Round Table Discussion on Judging Schedule for Black Walnuts

DR. L. H. MacDANIELS, Chairman

Dr. MacDaniels: During the year your committee has worked on the problem
of setting up a judging schedule for black walnuts, mainly through
correspondence. Unfortunately, it has not been possible to get together
for disc