o nuts for
northern, or northern and middle, planting. One nurseryman grows
nothing else. All are members of this Association and the nuts
propagated have all been shown at our meetings.

The work of the secretary during the year, besides the preparation
and issuing of the annual report, has been given to answering a
large and increasing correspondence, by personal letters and our
various bulletins and circulars. The resolutions introduced by the
Committee on Resolutions at the last meeting, and ordered by the
Association to be printed and distributed as directed in the
resolutions, were sent out by the secretary. A number of very
complimentary letters in reply to this were received.

Arrangements and announcements were made that all members were to
receive a subscription for one year to the _American Fruit and Nut
Journal_ as a part of their membership, and that new members would
receive in addition copies of both the reports that we have issued.
This proved very attractive, but unexpected complications have
arisen that have kept the secretary busy explaining why he has been
unable to fulfil both of these promises.

At the suggestion of Professor Hutt a circular was issued to gather
information about the Persian walnut tree in the North. Replies are
still coming in and the information obtained has not yet been
collated. It shows already, however, that there is a great number
of trees in the North; that there are two large centers so far
shown, one about Rochester, N. Y., and the other in Ontario,
Canada, on the strip of land between. Lakes Erie and Ontario, known
as the Niagara Peninsula. In both localities reporters speak of
hundreds of trees. One grower near Rochester has 225 seedling trees
about 27 years old from which he is marketing nuts.

The original trees in these locations are often spoken of as grown
from seed brought from Philadelphia at the time of the Centennial
Exposition. Another center seems to be about Lancaster, Pa. There
it appears that the original trees were brought in by the Germans.
Perhaps the Philadelphia trees above referred to had the same
origin. This would be a good subject for investigation by some of
our Pennsylvania members.

There is a tree, said to bear good crops of good nuts, at
Newburyport in the