celona and is very good. It also bears well.

In the younger block of plants we have quite a few promising plants but
these must be tested further before we can say anything definite for or
against them.

I notice considerable leaf burn in the block of hybrids since the severe
storm we had two weeks ago. Quite a few of the nuts were knocked off too
but there is still a good crop which you will see tomorrow.

Since my Father died we have not done any hybridizing. We hope to do so
in the future as the work is very interesting.

Mr. Stoke: Year before last I bought 2 lbs. of supposedly stratified
nuts. I planted them but only one or two came up. This year they have
made a pretty fair start so I know it takes two years to germinate. It
seems as though it sometimes takes three years because these were
stratified for a year and it took them two years to come up after I had
them planted. I think you could probably get some stratified nuts from
Carlton Nursery Co., Carlton, Oregon. I sent to Carlton for mine but
they were shipped by someone else. It is my belief that the Carlton
Nursery Co. controls the supply, so you will have to write to them for
them.

I have three or four dozen trees out of the first planting. They were
planted in a very crowded position among walnut trees but are doing
surprisingly well. The trees are now three years old and are shoulder
high.

Prof. Slate: I planted some Turkish hazel nuts. They have been planted
two years and have not yet come up, but I believe they will next year,
as they take two years to germinate.

The following is a list of houses where seed of different species can be
obtained. Submitted by the courtesy of Miss Jones:

Sources of CORYLUS

CHINENSIS
Hillier Bros., Winchester, England.
Vilmorin & Co., Paris, France.

CORYLUS COLURNA
Carlton Nursery Co., Carlton, Ore.

C. TIBITICA
Forest Experiment Station, Dehra Dun, British India.

Notes on the Commercial Cracking of Black Walnuts

_By_ H. F. STOKE, _Roanoke, Virginia_

A year ago I reported to this body an experiment in the commercial
production of black walnut kernels by factory methods, including the use
of a power-driven cracking device. During the past year the experiment
was continued, with the variation that the shelling was done as a home
industry rather than as a factory operation. Ten families were furnished
with hand-power cracking devices and the whole nuts were delivered to
the