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Title: Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953

Author: Various

Editor: Northern Nut Growers Association

Release Date: June 5, 2008 [EBook #25703]

Language: English

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44th Annual Report

OF THE

Northern Nut Growers Association

Incorporated

AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

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Annual Meeting at

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: