ch row the trees
there bear very nice nuts, and when you get out through that row, the
crowded trees don't bear at all.

I think those seedlings and those trees practically all make fairly good
nuts and some of them excellent. I have got some samples. About six
years ago I got a pound of imported Japanese I planted. The third year
they bore and they have done very well, and all of them are about the
same size chestnuts. They are as good as any _after_ they are roasted or
boiled. That's about all. A good many years ago, I guess 30 years ago, I
grafted Paragon chestnuts, and they did well until the blight.

Rev. Taylor: Does anybody else have this trouble? In North Central
Tennessee we usually have a warm spell about the Middle of February,
plowing time. We expect it every year. And then these Chinese chestnuts
are the quickest trees to let the buds swell, and the bark softens up
all the way to the ground on the young ones. Then we nearly always have
a pretty hard freeze, afterward. So, for several years after our
experimental planting was set out there they would get killed clear to
the ground next year. Is that something others have the same experience
with? How do you go at correcting that?

After our trees got to be three or four or five inches in diameter they
didn't kill back that way. The bark seemed to be tougher.

Mr. McDaniel: That's very common experience in Tennessee and, I might
say, in north Alabama.

Rev. Taylor: Nothing you can do about it?

Mr. McDaniel: On some sites it is not nearly so bad as it is in other
locations. A northern or eastern slope with good elevation seems to be
best.

Mr. Frye: I have had some trouble and maybe, had a good education about
frost pockets. If you get them in high elevations you escape that. I had
that trouble two years ago. I got some Chinese trees from Dr. Smith, set
them out. They were his best seedlings, three of them, and they started
beautifully. I transplanted them. Just about that time they got nipped
off. Did that three times and failed to come out the third time.

Pres. Davidson: One other remedy for that that I remember reading about,
I am not quite sure in which of our Reports--maybe Mr. Becker was the
author, and that is this: He said that he cultivates until August after
which he plants cover crops, and he sows cover crops that grow and they
hold back this vegetative growth in the late part of the year, and it is
really the late vegetative growth that