ant to vote "aye" for Stamford
and New York.

(Vote taken.)

THE SECRETARY: The result is as follows: For Evansville, 2; Stamford,
10; Battle Creek, 3; Petersburg, 3; Lancaster, 1; for Chicago, San
Francisco and the National Nut Growers, 0.

THE PRESIDENT: We are now ready, I believe, to proceed with the
technical part of the programme. The chair would like to call for
information as to the relative behavior of the Northern pecans,
top-worked or transplanted. Is there, for example, any evidence anywhere
as to the fruiting of any Northern pecan except on the parent tree?

MR. MCCOY: Mr. Wilkinson, in Indiana, has some top-worked bearing trees.

THE PRESIDENT: Unfortunately, they are right at home. What varieties has
he?

MR. MCCOY: The Major.

THE PRESIDENT: And how old was it before he top-worked it?

MR. MCCOY: Three years, I think.

THE PRESIDENT: On pecan?

A MEMBER: Yes, sir.

THE PRESIDENT: The Major bore the fourth year, three years old. I
believe that is the first record we have of that sort. Has any other
borne?

MR. MCCOY: A good many of my young trees bloom in the nursery, but I
don't think they succeeded in setting any nuts.

MR. M. P. REED: We have had some two-year trees in nursery, grafted.
Most all of them bloomed when two years old--the staminate but not the
pestillate blossoms.

THE PRESIDENT: I had a staminate blossom the third season on Butterick
in northern Virginia.

MR. HENRY STABLER: Is there any difference between trees budded from
young trees in the nursery row which are not in bearing, which have a
growth very much resembling water-sprouts, and those budded from bearing
trees?

PROF. HUTT: Mr. President, I can't give any experimental data on that
line, but the common practice of nurserymen in taking their bud-wood
from the nursery stock has been in use for years and years, as with
peaches. Very seldom do the nurserymen go to the original trees and get
their buds, but it is cut from nursery stock, because it is in a fine
condition to work. I think that trees propagated from young, vigorous
wood, cut in the nursery, are all right. I am not so sure as to how long
it is before they come into bearing.

MR. HENRY STABLER: I don't mean to say it is an undesirable practice to
bud from the nursery row, but is there any difference in the time of
coming into bearing?

THE PRESIDENT: I spent a very considerable amount of time and money in
that belief, but at State College, they ma