kernel--90.7
per lb., 69.8 shells per lb., 40% kernel.

WALSH WALNUTS--1941 crop grown in O. K. Valley--5 nuts 24.3 per
lb., 5 kernels--57.7 per lb., 5 shells--42.2 per lb., 42.26%
kernels. Kernels bland flavour.

WALTERS HEART NUT--1934 crop--20 nuts--47.2 per lb., 180.4 kernels
per lb., 26.2% kernel. 13 minutes to open and extract with
penknife.

WALTERS HEART NUT--1940 crop--1 nut--58.2 per lb., 226.8 kernels
per lb., 78.2 shells per. lb., 25.64% kernel.

NO. E. 16--From Ross Pier Wright--235 West 6th St., Erie,
Pennsylvania, U. S. A. 1 nut--61.3 per lb., 232.6 kernels per lb.,
83.2 shells per lb., 26.35% kernel.

WATT WALNUT--from Himalayan Mts., India, B. C.--grown 1940. 1 large
nut--35.4 per lb., 1 kernel--75.6 per lb., 1 shell--66.7. per lb.,
46.876% kernel.

Letters

_Abstract of letter from Thomas Mitchell, 259 W. 29th St., New York, N.
Y., to Julio P. Grandjean, Box 748, Mexico, D. F._ I am a tree breeder
interested in creating hybrid crop trees, oaks and, if possible,
bi-generic hybrids of carob with honey locust and with mesquite. I have,
in the past seven years, made over a thousand crosses of poplars and
about 600 inter-specific oak crosses. This spring I made 250 oak crosses
at the Arnold Arboretum, of which about 20% seem to be ripening viable
acorns. I have a list of 90 varieties of hybrid oaks and about 60
varieties of American Asiatic and European species which are available
here or at the Arboretum. I will send this list to any one who is
interested in trying to graft them on native oak seedlings, and will
send scions to any one willing to send me acorns, scions or pollen.

I believe the oak tree to be, potentially, more valuable than any other
crop tree.

_Abstract of letter from W. G. Tatum, Lebanon, Kentucky, to the Chairman
of the Survey Committee._ We have had reports from E. C. Rice of Absher,
Ky., but his work with trees and his wonderful personality are not well
enough known to us. Besides his large plantings of nut and fruit trees
he does general farming. He has almost all of the finer varieties of nut
trees, many of them large, in bearing and doing well.

Lewis Edmunds of Glasgow, Ky., discoverer of the Edmunds black walnut,
is a general farmer whose plantings of nut tree, while not large,
include many of the older and better known sorts, as well as later
discoveries of his own, including a ver