Stoke: "We don't know whether the wood of grafted trees is curly or not. I sent Mr. Reed a limb from Lamb and he gave it to the forest laboratory and they found no evidence of curly grain."
Rick: "Shouldn't it be propagated until we are sure?"
Stoke: "We had Mr. Lamb himself talk before us at Roanoke and he told us about the parent tree. He doesn't know what makes one tree curly and another not."
Korn: "Is that uncommon?"
Stoke: "Not so very. Trees are most curly at the base and in the outer wood."
Question: "Do you always leave that stub on black walnut?"
Stoke: "Yes, but it should be removed later in the first summer."
Question: "Where do you use your splice graft."
Stoke: "On anything other than walnut, if scion and stock are the same size. Where stock is larger than scion I use the modified cleft graft up to sizes approaching one inch in the stock. For topworking larger stocks I use one of the forms of bark graft. For the large hickory stock Dr. Morris' bark slot graft is preferred. For large, thin-barked stocks the simple bark graft may be used. My original grafts of the Carr and Hobson Chinese chestnuts, made with scions received from Messrs. Carr and Hobson in the winter of 1932, are still perfect unions.
"I believe that grafted chestnuts growing in frost pockets are most likely to develop faulty unions; possibly frost injury to immature cells at the junction point may occur. Dr. Crane mentions a similar failure of unions between Persian and black walnuts on the Pacific Coast."