ry hazel history in my part of Connecticut. So I doubt if this
species will ever be a good horticultural proposition.

This year, for the first time, I have budded the European hazel upon our
common stock for the purpose of observing whether the character of the
guest will change the character of the host.

Now another point. Many of the European hazels that have been brought to
this country, I find, do not bear for the reason that they flower so
early that the staminate flowers are caught by frost--not the
pistillate. The pistillates will hold out against frost for a long time
and make good. There are two or three ways for overcoming this
difficulty. We may select for cultivation those kinds which bloom a week
or two, or even three weeks later than others, as in the case of the
Bony Bush variety.

There is hardly any more valuable tree in Central Europe than the purple
leafed hazel. I never have seen one bearing in this country. Its
staminate flowers come out too early in Connecticut. I have now some in
which I have grafted the Bony Bush, which flowers so much later that I
hope to have my purple hazels bearing nuts at Merribrooke.

On the whole, most of the points have been simply confirmatory of points
previously considered. We need not fear hazel blight because it is very
easily controlled, and many of the European hazels will furnish an
immensely valuable crop for almost all parts of temperate America. We
may develop, by breeding and by cultivation, types which will be hardy,
which will give us large, valuable, marketable crops, and which will be
desirable from the market man's point of view.

DR. STABLER: Can you get stocks that are free from blight?

DR. MORRIS: Last year I showed specimens of blight. The blight,
fortunately, begins upon a fairly large stem--upon a part of the stem
that is in plain sight. It takes from two to four years for a patch of
that blight to encircle a limb. If one will go over his hazel orchard
once a year and, where a bit of blight appears, cut it out with his
jack-knife and later paint the spot with a little white paint, one can
very readily control hazel blight. It is so easily done that we need not
fear it at all.

THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Ulman, I believe, is a hazel enthusiast.

DR. ULMAN: I have attempted to gather as much information as I could by
seeking out the failures with hazel because I had found no one reporting
success. In answer to a large number of letters which I sent