th the issue of
_Standardized Plant Names_ in 1942, the name "hazel" was dropped for all
members of the family. For a time, an effort was made to distinguish
between the two by calling small-fruited ones "hazels" and those with
large fruits "filberts," but there is not exact dividing line and so now
all are called filberts.

Buchanan and Bixby are the only varieties of Mildred filberts thus far
fully released by anyone and although neither variety is entirely hardy
in the northernmost parts of the country, they do well as far south as
eastern Tennessee. The nuts of both are too small to compete in the
market with the large filberts of Oregon and Washington, but that is not
the purpose for which they have been bred. It is for home planting, a
use for which they are admirably adapted. Neither variety should be
judged until after they have cured fully, at least a month or more. Then
the flavor is excellent.

Of the various introductions made by Mr. Jones, the ones most likely to
endure are the Ohio black walnut, the Glover shagbark hickory, and the
Mildred filberts. The first has already lasted 32 years; the second 30
years; and the Mildred filberts are only nicely started.[24]

[Footnote 24: Except for the last two paragraphs, this paper was read
and approved by Miss Mildred Jones in Pavilion, N. Y., on September 2,
1948. The following day, or September 3, she became Mrs. Wesley Langdoc,
of P. O. Box 126, Erie, Illinois.]

+Mr. Reed Comments on Seedling Trees+

+Editor's Note:+ The next two paragraphs should be read in connection with
the "Round Table" on chestnut problems, elsewhere in this volume.

In a broad sense, it must be remembered that every variety of seedling
tree, of any species and every hybrid form that has ever been planted,
or grafted on another tree, has been worth something. This is still a
free country and every man has the inalienable right to plant whatever
he pleases. Even the hybrids of various forms, hickory, walnut, and
chestnut, are all worth something. All are trees and it is better to
plant a poor kind of tree than not to plant anything, particularly if it
is a nut tree. Whatever prompts a man to plant a tree is worth while.

Hybrid chestnuts bred by crossing Chinese chestnuts of unknown
performance record as to habit of bearing, size or flavor of nut, shape
of tree, resistance to blight, or spring freezes, and other
characteristics which combine to make good nuts, with the inferior