sident the chair was occupied by Professor W. N. Hutt
of North Carolina.

THE CHAIRMAN: Ladies and Gentlemen: If you will come to order, we will
begin the meeting of the Northern Nut Growers Association. It is
unfortunate that our president is called away on important business. He
has asked me to take his place and we will do the best we can. I will
ask the secretary to read a communication.

THE SECRETARY: I have this telegram from Mr. Littlepage, our president:

"Please express to the Northern Nut Growers Association my profound
regrets that I cannot be with them. No organization has ever been formed
that contained finer and more sincere men than ours. I invite the
Association to come to Indiana next year. I will take you along the
banks of the Wabash, the Ohio and Green River, where the pecan trees
grow so big that the sun has to go around. I send best wishes for a
successful meeting."

THE CHAIRMAN: Mr. Pomeroy has kindly consented to give us a talk on
walnuts.

EXPERIENCES AND EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PERSIAN WALNUT

A. C. POMEROY, NEW YORK

When our secretary asked me to prepare a paper on this subject, I
thought it would be very simple, but after making a beginning I found
that about all I knew on nut culture was my own experiences--successes
and failures--covering a period of about twenty-five years.

During the past year better data have been kept of the behavior of the
Persian walnut trees under my observation, than in former years.

Hereafter it is my intention to keep a more detailed record of the time
of the appearance of the nutlet blossoms of each tree, which is of the
utmost importance to those interested in the growing of the Persian
walnut in the North and East.

In order to keep a better record of each tree I have numbered the old
original trees, planted by my father, from 1 to 7.

Nuts from each tree are here in jars numbered to correspond with the
trees from which they were gathered and may be compared for variation in
size, shape, thinness of shell and flavor.

It would be impossible to keep an exact record in pounds of the yield of
any one tree per year. One thing against any such record, is that many
visitors come to our farm every year to see the walnut trees and the
pockets of some of them look suspiciously bulky on leaving. (An ordinary
coat pocket will hold a quart, an overcoat pocket more than that and
there are only thirty-two quarts in a bushel.)

The new orchard is jus