are shaken and the nuts collected from tree to tree by the
beaters and spread out upon the ground.

Sometimes coarse sheeting or matting is carried from tree to tree by the
beaters and spread out upon the ground.

QUESTION: At what age will they bear?

ANSWER: Pines bear rather late as a rule. I doubt if very many
of them will bear in less than 10 years from seed.

QUESTION: Would it be possible to produce grafted trees?

ANSWER: Yes, without much difficulty. Undoubtedly you could get
bearing wood from old trees and graft on young trees, or graft on other
species. They may be grafted back and forth like the ornamental firs and
spruces of the nurserymen.

QUESTION: They don't compass, do they. If you cut them off, do
shoots come out of the stumps?

ANSWER: Not as a rule. Adventitious buds belong to few pine
trees. They graft conifers when the stocks are young.

QUESTION: Of those that you suggest, what would be the best
here?

ANSWER: The Korean, the Bungeana or lace-bark, the Swiss stone
pine, and the Armandi. These can be counted on to bear in the vicinity
of New York. Several other species not yet tried out may bear well here,
but I have not gone over the trees on estates very extensively as yet
with that question in mind.

QUESTION: Are any of these specially good for the South?

ANSWER: Yes, most of the pine nuts that I have shown here will
grow south of Maryland and seven of the best pine nuts in the world
belong to our Southwest.

QUESTION: Is there any more trouble with the cows and squirrels
over nut pines than there is with ordinary pine trees?

ANSWER: No, excepting that you don't miss the ordinary kinds so
much. It is largely a matter of comparative interest.

NOTES TAKEN ON AN EXCURSION TO MERRIBROOKE, THE COUNTRY PLACE OF DR.
ROBERT T. MORRIS, AT STAMFORD, CONN., SEPTEMBER 5, 1917.

DR. MORRIS CONDUCTING THE PARTY.

(1) Taylor shagbark hickory tree, overhanging the entrance-gate. A tree
remarkable for annual bearing and for nuts of high quality, thin shell,
large size, and excellent cleavage. Among hundreds of hickories
examined, many of them in response to prize offers, this tree at the
entrance furnishes one of the very best nuts of the lot.

(2) Buckley hickory (_Hicoria Buckleyi_) from Texas. Supposed not to be
hardy in this latitude. Perfectly hardy, but not growing as rapidly as
it does at home. Very large roundish thick shelled nut with a kernel of
good quality if you c