ting of the Indiana Horticultural
Society in Indianapolis, at the A.P.S. meeting at St. Louis last winter
and at the Indiana State Fair in 1948, with a display going to some of
the other institutions--particularly to Oklahoma and Texas--for display
at their state shows. A new collection was gathered by the students and
the writer this year which, in part, will be displayed at the Indiana
Horticultural Society meeting on January 19, 20 and 21 and another
collection is being shown at Oklahoma A. & M. at this time. The nuts
will be returned and placed in cold storage to be exhibited at the State
Fair next fall and we have sufficient quantities on hand for individual
displays as well as for collections.

Each plate contains from 35 to 40 nuts of seedlings or named varieties
and at our recent show we had 66 plates of hickory nuts and allied
species. We had 41 plates of walnuts including some very fine Persian
walnuts, 16 samples of filbert seedlings, 20 plates of miscellaneous and
all told 141 different plates at our show which was held on November 5,
6 and 7, 1948.

Some of our best contributors have been such as Ferd Bolten, Linton,
Indiana, who sent five good Persian walnuts and one excellent black
walnut. Edward Smith, of Rochester, Indiana, and Henry Buit, of
Lafayette, also have found some wonderful walnut seedlings. Donald Sly,
Rockport, Indiana, has produced the best seedling filberts, about eight
in number, and contributed a wonderful display of the McCallister hican.
Mr. J. F. Wilkinson, Proprietor of the Indiana Nut Nursery, has
contributed largely to the collection of seedling and named varieties of
hardy northern pecan while W. A. Owen, Poseyville, and Clem Seib,
Owensville, have been consistent winners in the large shellbark
hickories. O. W. Thompson, Owensville, and William Seng, of Jasper,
contributed some large size thin-shelled shagbark hickories to our show.
James Stall, of Brownstown, is a consistent winner in butternuts.

Each year more interest is being shown in the planting of native nuts
and some of our Persian walnuts are rather outstanding. Nolan Fateley,
Franklin, Indiana, has a very fine seedling Persian walnut of large size
which we are hoping to propagate. (A large Carpathian tree.--Ed.)

The Importance of Stock and Scion Relationship in Hickory and Walnut

CARL WESCHCKE, St. Paul, Minnesota

Twenty-five years of practical study and living with the hickories ought
to suffice to mak