l expenses,
including the publishing of the report. The secretary would like
also to have enough to issue reprints or bulletins from time to
time.

The secretary asks for instructions in the face of this difficulty
and would suggest the appointment of a finance committee, not to
include the secretary, and to be composed of persons who will work.

There might be a similar hard-working committee on programme. The
secretary is willing to be the clearing house for the Association,
but would like to have something to clear besides the cloudy
results of his own labors.

The secretary has a list of over six hundred names of persons
interested in nut culture, which he thinks should be circularized
from time to time with reprints, or bulletins, setting forth the
importance of, and the advances in, the art of nut culture.

The secretary would be pleased if each member would send in a new
member during the year, would send an advertisement of his own, or
some other person's, business for the annual report, and would pay
his own dues promptly on the first intimation from the secretary.
Members whose dues for the year are not paid will not receive the
annual report and, after a decent interval, their names will
automatically drop from the roll of membership and not appear in
the next annual report.

Except from a financial standpoint the Association may fairly
consider that it has had a prosperous year. Our present membership
is 134, an increase of 48 over the number reported at the last
meeting. (At date of going to press the membership is 143.)

Three members have resigned and we have lost two by death, Mr.
George W. Gachwind of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Mr. W. D. Ellwanger of
Rochester, N. Y. (News came during the meeting of the death of
Henry Hales of Ridgewood, N. J., the first honorary member of the
Association. An account of Mr. Hale's work with nuts appears
elsewhere in this report.)

Thirty-one members have failed to pay their dues and have not been
sent copies of the report. The secretary asks permission to drop
the names of these members from the rolls and that a rule be
formulated to guide his action in the future.

That interest in nut growing is increasing is shown by the issuance
this year of three catalogues devoted entirely t