is seeking to establish a regular plant breeding
department. They have growing on their grounds the greatest collection
of trees and shrubs that will grow in that section that can be found
anywhere in the country. I want to offer a resolution as follows:

WHEREAS it is the firm belief of the Association that one of the
most hopeful sources of obtaining nuts better than we now have is
by carefully planned and executed work of hybridization, and

WHEREAS such work, particularly in the case of the slower
developing nuts, such for example as the hickories, will require
the uninterrupted carrying out of carefully planned work for a long
series of years, and

WHEREAS the Arnold Arboretum, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., has on its
grounds a greater collection of the trees and shrubs from all parts
of the world that will grow in that location than can be found
anywhere else in the country, including a large number of hickories
of various species in bearing, and

WHEREAS the Arnold Arboretum is now assembling on its grounds the
various propagated nut trees, and has expressed its intention of
continuing this work and of including all varieties that it may be
able to obtain of those hickory trees notable for any one quality
and which may promise to be valuable for hybridizing purposes, and

WHEREAS the Arnold Arboretum is desirous of establishing a regular
plant breeding department where nut trees, particularly hickories,
as well as trees valuable for timber purposes, flowers, etc., may
be bred, and, in order to provide for the uninterrupted carrying
out of this work is seeking to raise an endowment, be it hereby

RESOLVED: That the Northern Nut Growers Association assembled in
the City of Washington, D. C., this 8th day of October in the year
1920 heartily endorses this purpose of the Arnold Arboretum as one
likely to promote the acquisition of finer nuts than we now have,
and urges all persons able to do so to aid in any way possible.

DR. MORRIS: I move that we adopt that resolution.

MR. REED: I second the motion.

The motion was carried unanimously.

THE PRESIDENT: If there is nothing before the body at this time I will
declare the eleventh annual session closed.

APPENDIX

From C. K. Sober, Lewisburg, Pa.:

My bearing chestnut trees, most of them, have gone out but in the 40