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