ried for a few years; but as so often happens
with this species, nursery trees died badly in winter and Mr. Jones
thought it due to blight, a disease which was then sweeping his part of
the country, taking its mortal toll of both American and European
species. However, blight does not seriously attack young trees and it is
more likely that death was caused by a combination of summer drouth and
winter cold; but no matter, the trees perished and the result was the
same.

+First Heartnut Grafts+

Mr. Jones tried the butternut and there is still one tree in the
experimental planting east of the residence. It is Aiken, from New
England, and was first propagated by him in 1918. It proved
disappointing. He grafted the first heartnut ever grafted of any kind
insofar as is known, the Lancaster, in 1918. The only other heartnut for
which he received full credit for first propagation was Faust, obtained
from a dentist, Dr. 0. D. Faust, Bamberg, S. C., in 1918. Others that he
was doubtless first to propagate, but for which credit went to the
owners of the parent trees, were Bates and Stranger in 1919, both from
R. Bates, Jackson, Aiken County, S. C., and Ritchie, a Virginia variety
found by John W. Ritchie of Flemington, N. J., in 1918.

However, heartnuts are seldom heavy bearers and the trees do not grow
large or live long. In Japan the wood is sometimes used for gunstocks
but only because better material is unavailable. Heartnuts have
practically no market where other kinds of nuts can be had and the trees
are much subject to "bunch" disease. To an enormous extent the trees
have been sold to unsuspecting people of the South and East as "English"
walnuts.

[Footnote 23: See Weschcke's paper, elsewhere in this report.--Ed.]

+The Filbert+

Mr. Jones had a tree or two of the Turkish filbert, a species sometimes
reaching a height of 60 feet and attaining a trunk diameter of three
feet or more. Bixby found the species hardy in central New Hampshire.
Mr. Jones obtained his seed from three trees in Highland Park,
Rochester, New York, which are believed to be the oldest in the country.
In some years, the Rochester trees bear freely, while in others there is
not a nut. This is a valuable ornamental species, as it is green from
early spring till the last thing in fall; specimens must be selected for
such use, as often the trees are unshapely. Like all filberts, they are
subject to Japanese beetle attack and must be sprayed or o