ROCHESTER, NEW YORK

August 31—September 1, 1953

[Illustration: NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOC.

ROCHESTER N.Y.-1953]

Table of Contents

Officers and Committees 1953-54 4
State and Foreign Vice-Presidents 6
Constitution and By-laws 8
Call to Order, 44th Annual Meeting 11
Address of Welcome—Wilbur Wright 12
Business Session—Secretary's Report—Treasurer's Report 13, 14, 15
Blossoming Habits of the Persian Walnut—H. F. Stoke 18
President's Address—Richard B. Best 22
About Nuts—Ira M. Kyhl 28
Natural Variation Observed in Shagbark Hickory, Carya ovata
(Mill.) K. Koch. in Central New York—David H. Caldwell 29
The Control of the Hickory Weevil (Curculio caryae) 39
Round Table Discussion—What's Your Problem 43
The International Chestnut Commission and the Chestnut Blight
Problem in Europe, 1953—G. Flippo Gravatt 52
Rooting Chestnuts from Softwood Cuttings—Roger W. Pease 56
Evaluating Chestnuts Grown under Forest Conditions—Jesse
D. Diller 59
Panel Discussion—Chestnuts 62
Development of the Nut Industry in the Middle West—J. F.
Wilkinson 70
Some Aspects of the Problem of Producing Curly-Grained
Walnuts—L. H. MacDaniels 72
Late Rev. Paul C. Crath—L. K. Devitt 80
The Eastern Black Walnut as a Farm Timber Tree—John Davidson 84
The McKinster Persian Walnut—P. E. Machovina 89
Carpathian Walnuts in the Colombia River Basin—Lynn Tuttle 94
Walnuts and Filberts in Southern Wisconsin—C. F. Ladwig 95
Biology, Distribution and Control of the Walnut Husk
Maggot—F. L. Gambrell 98
Panel Discussion: The Persian Walnut Situation 104
Banquet Session—Resolutions Committee Report 109
Walnuts in Lubec, Maine—Radcliffe B. Pike 115
My Thirty Years Experience with Nut Trees—Carl Weschcke 116
Growing American Chestnuts and Their Hybrids Under Blight
Conditions—Alfred Szego 119
Experiences and Observations on Nut Growing in Central
Texas—Kaufman Florida 121
Propagation of the Hickories—F. L. O'Rourke 122
A Root Disease of the Persian Walnut—G. Flippo Gravatt 127
Factors That Influence Nut Production—W. B. Ward 129
Pictorial Record of Grafting at Climax Michigan—W. M. Beckert 134
Rock Phosphate for Nut Trees—Harry B. Burgart 135
A Report from Southern Minnesota—R. E. Hodgson 136
Chestnut Breeding—Report for 1953—Arthur Harmount Graves and
Hans Nienstaedt 136
Dr. W. C. Deming—John Davidson 144
The Nomenclature of Nut Varieties—George H. M. Lawrence 145
The New Code for the Naming of Cultivated Plants—J. S. L. Gilman 149
Exhibit at the Harvest Show of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society 158
Attendance Register, Rochester, N. Y. 1953 159
Membership List 160

Officers for 1953-54

President Richard B. Best, Eldred, Illinois
Vice-President Gilbert Becker, Climax, Michigan
Secretary Spencer B. Chase, Knoxville, Tennessee
Treasurer William S. Clarke, Jr., State College, Pennsylvania
Directors Dr. L. H. MacDaniels, Ithaca, New York
Dr. William Rohrbacher, Iowa City, Iowa
Dean of the Association Dr. W. C. Deming, Litchfield, Connecticut

EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS 1953-54

Program Committee:
Dr. Lloyd L. Dowell, Royal Oakes, Dr. J. W. McKay, Roy D. Anthony,
J. G. McDaniel, Lewis E. Theiss, W. B. Ward.