and I don't know what varieties to advise people to plant. I don't
know how to advise them to overcome this difficulty of the early
staminate bloom and the winter killing. I can't now conscientiously
recommend people to plant hazel nuts commercially.

DR. MORRIS: Go to Rochester and get some there that bloom every year and
that bloom later. My Bony Bush blossoms some three weeks later than the
others, I presume. It is a bush that bears well every other year,
apparently.

THE PRESIDENT: Are there any further questions about this large family
of nut trees of which we have but a small corner of knowledge? If not,
we may look to an adjournment.

First, I wish to announce that this afternoon we are going to devote to
an excursion around the city, to see some of the most remarkable Persian
walnut trees which I think may be found anywhere.

I am asked by Prof. Close to say that the Department of Agriculture has
an exhibit of nuts on the fourth floor at 220 Fourteenth Street,
Southwest.

Meeting adjourned.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2 P. M.

Meeting called to order by the President.

THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Metcalf, Chief of the Bureau of Forest Pathology, of
the Department of Agriculture, has been in charge of the investigations
concerning the chestnut blight for a number of years.

DR. HAVEN METCALF: Mr. Chairman and Members of the Society: I will
present, first, a few general facts regarding the present status of the
chestnut bark disease, and, for the greater part of the information you
desire, I will rely on you to ask me questions.

The chestnut bark disease is getting to be an old story, but that plant
hyphenate, that objectionable imported disease, is more of a live issue
today than it ever has been before. All my attention during recent
months has been taken up with another imported plant disease, the white
pine blister rust, of which you have heard, and which does not concern
the special subject matter in which this Association is interested,
unless, perhaps, you may be interested in the pinon nut as the pinon
pine may ultimately be subject to attack by blister rust. However, this
disease, like the chestnut blight, is an example of what a relatively
harmless, or at least, not serious disease in a foreign country can do
when it is permitted to get into the United States.

This brings us to the question of the origin of the chestnut bark
disease, which, although the story has been told many times before, has