I think if we all get active on hunting out these Persians the way we have blacks, we can make very good progress.
MR. McDANIEL: Even on appearance I think some of them beat what you see in the stores.
MR. CHASE: Yes, on appearance. Of course, some of them were handed back and forth and competing against each other, that's what happened.
DR. McKAY: I'd like to ask how much importance you ascribe to tree characteristics and not the nut itself.
MR. CHASE: I asked for that information and tabulated it, and it didn't mean much. We found we couldn't do it. So then we came back to the nut first.
Carpathian Scions for Testing~
There is one other point I might mention. Last year you may recall that I reported on our planting of Carpathian seedlings at Norris, some 500 of them, which were frosted every single year. We have babied them along now for almost ten years, and I don't see any prospects of getting any nuts on them.
Now, among those 500 there must be one good one, and I will be very happy to collect scion wood of all those trees and send it to members who are willing to top-work them and see what they will do. So if any of you folks are interested in some of these varieties—not varieties yet, but seedlings—I'd like to see them fruit, and I am sure we never will at Norris.
DR. MacDANIELS: Where did you get the seed?
MR. CHASE: From the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society.