.
Clark, origin Iowa, very large nut.
Gifford, bears very heavy crop every second year, ripens before
Thomas.

=Persian (English) Walnut=
David Fairchild, seedling Rumanian giant.
Senator Pepper, seedling Rumanian giant.
Paul de Kruif, seedling Rumanian giant.
Chinese, very hardy, medium size.
Broadview, from British Columbia but originally from Russia.

=Hickory=
Neilson, a true shagbark, nut large flat and very thin shell, flavor
is wonderful. A big tree on highway 24 not far south of where
Alexander Graham Bell perfected the telephone.
Hagen, a true shagbark, a fast grower.
Hand, a shagbark.
Weiker, a shellbark and shagbark cross, a large, heavy bearing nut
that ripens here north of Lake Ontario. Excellent flavor, grafted
on pecan.
Papple, a small good shagbark, cracks out whole.
Anthony No. 1 shagbark.
Glover, from Miss Riehl.

=Heartnut=
Wright, a good bearer and excellent cracker.
Stranger, very heavy bearer, excellent cracker.
Gellatly.

=Filbert=
Italian Red, medium long with wide base.
Bollwyller, large round.
Du Chilly, long smooth.
Many seedlings of named varieties.

=Chestnut=
Gibbons, Miss Riehl, hybrid European American.
Chinese, test not completed.

=Jap Butternut=
Helmick, from Miss Riehl, 14 cluster, regular bearer, very thin shell,
grafted on black walnut.

Report from Beamsville, Ontario

LEVI HOUSSER

About twenty years ago I started to plant nut trees, as I decided nuts
were the solution to good health, which I later found was correct. Most
of my first trees died. I started gathering nuts all over the country
until at last, near my own home, I found a neighbor who had ten trees
and two out of the ten were bearing large size nuts of an excellent
flavor. I also added filberts to my collection.

About this time I learned of Prof. Neilson, so I went to see him in
Guelph. He told me about the Northern Nut Growers Association. I also
learned about Mr. Corsan and his work at Islington so I went to see him.
He also told me about the Association so I went to the next meeting and
joined up. I began to add more varieties to my plantings. My first four
acre planting was seeded with oats the second year. All my tress had a
nice start. I spent some three hundred dollars that year for grafted nut
trees. That second fa