out I
received some 290 replies which reported failures with the European
hazel. Dr. Morris tells us that blight can be readily controlled. So
far, that does not seem to be the experience of others, but it is only
fair to say that they do not know how to get rid of it in the way that
Dr. Morris has told us.

THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Ulman, I should like to ask if it is not true that
the hazels growing at Rochester could be added to your collection of 290
and change this complexion a little bit. Certainly last year we saw
hazel trees almost the diameter of this room which appeared to be
perfectly healthy.

THE SECRETARY: Can we recommend the hazel to be planted commercially?

THE PRESIDENT: If the hazel propagates by underground stolons
automatically, why can we not take the stolons and plant them in the
places that the trees have abandoned, letting them run on elsewhere?

DR. MORRIS: In regard to Dr. Deming's question, green European hazel
nuts are now selling in New York, out of cold storage, at seventy-five
cents a pound. Green hazel nuts like green almonds are prized by the
gourmet. All of the European hazels will eventually furnish a good
commercial proposition provided that the market is large enough, and the
market will probably grow, is growing in fact. Ripe filberts bring,
approximately, from ten to fifteen cents a pound. The trees bear well,
and I don't know of any reason why the hazel proposition should not be a
first rate one right now. The thing to do is to select kinds which we
know are valuable here. One may go through the seedling orchards at
Rochester and select one parent which bears large nuts prolifically, and
then propagate any number of European hazels from that one stock. My
Bony Bush is probably a desirable hazel.

In regard to the question of breeding from stolons, if we can keep that
thing going it would be all right, but it requires so much work I doubt
if we shall do anything in that way with the American hazel. The
European hazels don't travel by stolons. That is the advantage. So I
have given up the common American hazel as a commercial proposition. A
number of European and Asiatic hazels will be commercially profitable,
unquestionably, just as soon as we care to develop them.

MR. WEBER: What do you know about the hazels of the Western coast?

DR. MORRIS: Very profitable in parts of Oregon and Washington. They have
a large, good crop, which sells locally, but, like most Pacific Coast
fru