y, and I think it
came from Korea. The nuts run very small, and compared with those I am
sure the others will pay much better, and I think it would be profitable
to pay three or four or five times as much for your trees if you get
good trees of good, known varieties and grafted or budded.

Don't misunderstand me. We shouldn't ask the American public to wait
until those can be furnished, because they won't wait, and they
shouldn't. But I say as a commercial proposition, to plant trees
commercially, I would exercise caution and I would encourage my
customers to exercise caution unless they are willing to follow up and
do their own top working later on, and a Chinese chestnut doesn't top
work as readily as a black walnut.

Mr. Chase: I don't believe that's quite the answer he wanted. The
comment that I think Dr. MacDaniels is after is what position should the
Northern Nut Growers Association take in regard to planting seedlings or
planting grafted stock. Is that the point?

Dr. MacDaniels: Yes, it seems to be seedlings against grafted stock.

Mr. Stoke: May I answer? I don't think the Northern Nut Growers
Association should take _any_ position. They should present the facts
and let the buyer decide. I don't think we need to go on record, and I
don't think we should. There is too much diversity of opinion.

Dr. MacDaniels: Between ourselves--and this is not an academic
question--we get continual inquiries regarding the Chinese chestnuts and
what should they plant and where can they get the trees, and so forth.
It isn't good enough in most of these cases to write several pages
explaining what the whole situation is, the _if's_, _and's_, and
_but's_. But I just wonder what the opinion is of the people who know
best in this regard. Who has a good orchard of 20-year-old grafted
Chinese chestnuts? Where are they? I don't know: I am asking for
information.

Mr. Chase: Dr. Drain, are those trees you have grafted trees or seedling
trees?

Dr. Drain (University of Tennessee): They are seedling trees. They have
produced a rather nice quality nut, and we have enjoyed propagating
seedlings from them. That's really all we know. We haven't grafted any.

Mr. Chase: Mac, would you care to comment on this?

Mr. McDaniel: I am ashamed to say that at present we have no grafted
chestnut trees on my own north Alabama farms. We have about 50 trees
that are 8-year-old seedlings from imported (Chinese) nuts, growing next
to a commercial