ons.

Edward Fuhlbruegge of Scotch Plains has long tried to grow pawpaw
seedlings with no success. He wants to know if any other New Jersey
members have been able to raise pawpaws from seed.

(Ed.--He should keep the seedbed moist through the summer. These
seeds germinate slowly and the seedlings cannot emerge through a
hard soil surface.)

The observation of Gilbert V. P. Terhune of Newfoundland is that the
native chestnuts continue to sprout and occasionally produce nuts. He
predicts that in years to come we will again have our native chestnuts.
[Ed.--Someone should carefully save his nuts and grow trees from them.]

John H. Donnelly of Hoboken asks other nut growers for their opinion of
using cut grass as a mulch for nut trees. [Ed.--Excellent.]

From Fairlawn J. L. Brewer states that his black walnuts do not seem to
have any bad effects on raspberries and strawberries, thus adding
another note to the long controversy as to the deleterious effects of
black walnuts on the soil. His Texas pecan and Indiana hickory
seedlings, although planted in favorable location, have not made a good
growth. [Ed.--Did he feed them?]

Louis P. Rocker of Andover reports his Thomas and Stabler walnuts had a
good crop in 1946 but this year have few nuts.

This planting (Buckwalter) consists of _Castanea mollissima_,
_mollissima_ hybrids and _Japonica_ (crenata). Due to circumstances
during the war years, we have not been able to do much with this
orchard; however, we hope gradually to build it up.

In 1946 the part of the chestnut crop that was harvested was infested
with the chestnut curculios. About fifty per cent of the nuts were
affected. No infestation had been noted in previous years, although in
1945 the crop was not harvested at all. [Ed.--That gave the worms their
chance to propagate.]

We will not be able to spray our entire chestnut orchard this year;
however, a few of the trees will be sprayed to determine the
effectiveness of DDT as a control. In the December, 1946 issue of "The
American Fruit Grower" it was stated that DDT as a wettable power (four
pounds of fifty per cent DDT to one hundred gallons of water) should be
used. Three applications gave best results, and this will be tried on
our trees.

This year we have a good crop of nuts and hope to select the best of our
trees, which will be included in next year's report.

Report of Resolutions Committee

The Northern Nut Growers Associ