na pecan trees. At Rochester, N.
Y., James S. McGlennon and Conrad Vollertsen have produced interesting
results with filberts imported some years ago from Germany. They have
five-year-old bushes bearing; these have proved hardy in every way and
they have no blight. The nuts compare favorably with the best of the
imported kinds. Nursery stock will soon be ready in quantity, and they
now have 500 plants suitable for transplanting.

Filbert and walnut are the only nut trees grown commercially to any
extent in the nurseries of the northwest. A few almond and chestnut
trees are grown there, but the demand for them is very light. J. B.
Pilkington, Portland, Ore., a well-known grower of a general line of
nursery stock, advertises French, Japanese and Italian chestnut trees
and the American Sweet. Filberts are being produced to a considerable
extent. At present the nurseries cannot supply the demand for filbert
plants, owing to the limited number of mother plants in the northwest.
Practically all the nurseries have Barcelona and Du Chilly for sale, and
a number have the Avelines. From one nursery or another De Alger,
Kentish Cob and a few other varieties can be had. Persian walnuts are
grown on a larger scale. Groner & McClure, Hillsboro, Ore., are the
largest exclusive walnut nurserymen in the northwest. They produce close
to 6,000 grafted trees annually. These sell at 90c. to $1.00 per tree in
lots of 100. The Oregon Nursery Company, Orenco, Ore., produce a large
number of both grafted and seedling walnut trees, asking up to $2.00 per
tree for grafted and 35 to 50c. for seedlings. Many of the smaller
nurseries procure their nut trees from California nurseries. Each year
the proportion of seedlings planted is less. Franquette is the popular
variety that is propagated.

The Northern Nut Growers' Association and one or two other similar
organizations have labored for years to extend interest in nut culture.
The files of the secretary of this association will show in heaps of
letters and piles of newspaper clippings the marked success in view of
the means that were at hand. And it has all been upon a high plane. The
campaigns have been marked by the utmost degree of conscientious effort
to arrive at the truth regarding, adaptability of varieties and cultural
methods. This work is still in progress--indeed, the need for it will
never end. But in the opinion of the writer there should from this day
go hand in hand with investigati