think it is well
that we have had it in the form so that it could be a part of our
record. What will you do with it?

Dr. MacDaniels: Move the acceptance of the report.

Mr. McDaniel: Second.

(Vote taken on motion, carried unanimously.)

President Davidson: I have here a telegram that I should like to read to
you, and this is the way it is worded: "Your generously worded telegram
is greatly appreciated. I am grateful beyond all words. My greetings to
everyone present tonight. C. A. Reed." We are glad to have the word from
Mr. Reed.

Our business meeting is now adjourned.

(Whereupon, the program and business sessions of the Thirty-ninth Annual
Meeting of the Northern Nut Growers Association were closed.)

[Illustration]

(On September 15, the members were conducted on a tour of the nursery,
arboretum, and experimental nut plantings of the Tennessee Valley
Authority near Norris.)

Odds and Ends

DR. W. C. DEMING, West Hartford, Connecticut

I would like to suggest, especially to the younger members of the
association, three horticultural projects that I believe promise to be
of importance, and on which nobody that I know of is doing any work.
Only one of these projects has to do with a nut.

1. Utterly neglected and wasted, the fruit of the horsechestnut or
buckeye, "said, to have been formerly used as food or medicine for
horses," still might become an abundant food for animals, and perhaps
for man, if a way could be found to deprive it of its disagreeable
bitter taste and reputed, probably exaggerated, poisonous quality.[31]

There is one late flowering horsechestnut, _Aesculus parviflora_, a
dwarf species from the Southeast, and commonly seen in Connecticut as an
ornamental on lawns, which bears a nut entirely free from bitterness,
and is sometimes known as the edible horsechestnut. The possibilities in
crossing this with the bitter horsechestnut tree species are evident and
fascinating. [Several hybrid horsechestnuts are cultivated, but none of
these apparently involves any _A. parviflora_ parentage.--Ed.]

2. In temperate zones there are, so far as I have learned, no
_perennial_ legumes the seeds of which are used as food. All our
immensely valuable edible leguminous seed crops are annually planted.
The only exception I think of is the honeylocust, the pods of which,
under favorable conditions, are sometimes used as fodder for horses and
cattle. But there are thousands of leguminous plant