ection paid off. At the second meeting, held at the New York
State College of Agriculture, in Ithaca, it appeared that the new
Secretary had communicated with a large number of leading nurserymen,
with national and State horticulturists and with others. It was reported
at this meeting that only two nurserymen had accepted the invitation to
attend. "So", reported Secretary Deming, "evidently the others do not
think the northern nut grower is one whose acquaintance is worth
cultivating. We hope to convince them to the contrary."

This was done. At the second meeting, the Association could count sixty
members. Professor John Craig, of Cornell, in noting this growth, said,
"Dr. Deming has not merely performed the routine duties of the
secretary, but he has studied the case and has presented a good many
facts not apparent on the surface. It seems to me that this augurs
well."

The augury proved prophetic. The Association continued to grow. But
without this first intelligent, persistent effort upon the part of. Dr.
Deming, it could hardly have survived.

This small bit of history is illustrative of the whole life of Dr.
Deming. His deep interest in the purposes and hopes of our Association
has never ceased. Upon his own ground he planted, and budded and
grafted many nut trees, and has given away the fruits of his labors with
a prodigal good will. Deming's Burnham pecan and the Deming Purple black
walnut are the only introductions, so far as this writer knows, which
bear his name.

Again, some thirty years after the first meeting mentioned above, Dr.
Deming thought up and carried through another project which makes the
Association repeatedly his debtor, an Index of the first thirty volumes
of the Association's Annual Reports. It is a work which saves the
conscientious worker in northern nut culture hours and hours of labor.

And now our Dean, the last of the founding fathers, has left us for the
Elysian Fields. His gentle, kindly face will be sadly missed by those
who knew him, but he lives on in every tree whose planting his labors
inspired and in every mind which has been, even unconsciously, his heir.

A letter from Miss Charlotte Deming, a sister, assures us, somewhat
touchingly, but happily, of this fact:

"My brother's heart was with and in the work of the Association. He was
happy to know of its expansion into such a wide-spread organization, and
very proud of having been made its Dean."

Dr. Deming lived a ful