not plowed around. I have wondered
at times if they are not too near salt water, and maybe the roots go
down to water, yet the trees nearest the river bear best. We have a
Teche tree only about 20 feet from high tide line, and it is our surest
bearer, having never missed a crop.

Our only varieties that scab to any extent are the one Georgia and the
two trees of Delmas, but the man on Dr. Stubbs' place says that both
varieties scab although I forgot to ask which variety was worst. (Delmas
is one of worst scabbing varieties in the South.--Ed.)

Indiana Nut Shows Have Educational Value

W. B. WARD, Extension Horticulturist, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.

A few days ago I had a letter from Professor George L. Slate, of the
Geneva station, requesting that I send you some information concerning
our recent nut shows and a couple of pictures to be used in the current
report.

I am enclosing two pictures--one showing a display of hicans, shellbark,
shagbark, bitternut, mockernut hickories and in the background a few of
the miscellaneous sorts, while the other picture shows mostly the black
walnuts. (Latter picture printed on next page.--Ed.)

If you will note in the pictures, we have used a saw and cut the nuts in
two for display purposes. This has been one means of classifying the
seedlings to find out whether or not they were worthy of further
propagation, although this alone was not the final classification. It
was rather surprising to the number of visitors we have had at our shows
to see the difference in the interior of the nut and believe me it has
done a lot toward the education of the people when it comes to locating
some of the better seedlings.

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The purpose of the nut program in the state of Indiana was for the
betterment of native nuts and we were in hopes that we could find some
very promising seedlings that would be worthy of further work. With the
cooperation of the Indiana Horticultural Society and the Student
Horticultural Show here at the University, we have had this nut show for
the past six or eight years. Sometimes it has been in competition, other
times it has been mostly for display. The show served the purpose which
we had in mind for thus we have located some very nice walnuts, hickory
nuts and a few good seedling pecans. After the show had been visited by
some six to eight thousand annually for the past several years, we have
further made displays at the annual mee