It will be noticed that nuts
from young grafted trees are
generally larger than those
from the parent trees
Species and Hybrid:
Arkansas Hickory, carya buckleyi
Arkansana
Bitternut, carya cordiformis,
Dennis, Hatch
Buckley Hickory, carya Buckleyi
Chinese Hickory, carya cathayensis
Pallid Hickory, carya pallida
Shellbark, carya laciniosa, from
3 locations
Water Hickory, carya aquatica
Zorn, the largest hickory yet
found, carya buckleyi Arkansana
x alba
PECANS
Northern Varieties:
Burlington
Busseron
Butterick
Campbell
Greenriver
Indiana
Koontz
Major
McCallister
Niblack
Norton
Posey
Witte
Species and curiosities:
Seedling Pecan from Adams,
Ill. The most northern native
growing pecan yet seen
by Willard G. Bixby
Curtis Pecan, without inner
shell partition
Schley Pecan, one grown in
Georgia, the other in southern
Pennsylvania. This
shows how the nuts are
dwarfed by lack of sufficient
summer heat
PERSIAN WALNUTS
Varieties:
Alpine
Boston
Colona
Franquette
Hall
Holden
Hutchinson
Lancaster
Mayette
Milbank
Ontario
Pomeroy
Rush
Sayre
Witte
Seedlings and Hybrids
Chinese Paper Shell
Juglans regia x cinerea from
2 locations
Allen, juglans regia x rupestris
MISCELLANEOUS
Almond, Ridenhauer
Chinese (edible apricot)
Beechnuts, American (2 locations)
European
Queensland Nut Macadamia
ternifolia
Water Chestnuts:
Nelumbium Luteum
Nelumbium Speciosum
NOTES TAKEN AT MERRIBROOKE, DR. MORRIS' ESTATE NEAR STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT
Excursion of Friday, September 5, 1924
Arriving at Stamford, all guests and members were met at the station by cars from Dr. Morris' place. After coming together at the house, the members followed Dr. Morris to the main gateway, where the following program commenced:
DR. MORRIS: If you will all follow me here inside the gateway we will take the trees as they come in the order of the mimeographed sheet which you hold.
I will first say that the abnormalities at Merribrooke this year were three in number. First, a destructive invasion of the tent caterpillar which attacked nearly all kinds of trees during its traveling stage. Then came a canker worm invasion with partial or complete defoliation of even the forest trees. Almost all of the whole leaves on any tree represent the second set for the season. Then came a drought said to have been the most severe since 1871. As a result of these three influences most of the fruit trees and nut trees dropped their crops this year.
Among the many introduced and grafted trees at Merribrooke only about one hundred typical forms have been tagged for this occasion. The large tags on the trees represent types, the smaller tags represent different variations of the type. Numbers on the tags correspond to numbers on this list.