Type A was the commonest form of nut found in the Onondaga County area. It roughly exceeded Types B, D and E by a 2:1 ratio. Type C exceeded Types B, D and E with a ratio of about 7:5 in frequency of occurrence. Types B and D were the two most easily cracked nut forms when using a hammer and anvil for a cracking device. It should be noted at this time that _all_ of the abnormal fruit types were found in _conjunction with_ normal fruit types. Thus, one individual tree used as a collection might produce _both_ a normal nut type (A, B, C, D or E) _and_ an abnormal nut type (F, G or H). Occasionally a few nuts in a collection from one tree might be classed as a _second_ normal type. This was rare however (5 cases) and only occurred in "borderline trees" which were then classified and recorded as per the dominant nut type for the tree. It should be noted here that the nut type did _not_ vary from year to year for the trees examined. Also the frequency of nut crops varied considerably; less than 1/4 of the sample trees produced nuts each year. Most of the trees produced crops in alternate years, and a very few have not fruited in the third year following a heavy nut crop. The 158 trees examined provided the following distribution by fruit types: ---------------+------------------+-------------------------------- | Number of | Number of abnormal types found Fruit Type | Individual Trees | in conjunction with | | normal types -----------+---+------------------+-------------------------------- | | | F G H -----------+---+------------------+-------------------------------- Normal | A | 54 | 5 2 1 | B | 23 | 2 1 | C | 36 | 1 2 | D | 21 | 7 1 | E | 24 | 4 1 -----------|---+------------------+-------------------------------- | | 158 collections | -----------+---+------------------+-------------------------------- Abnormal | F | 15 | 15 | G | 8 | 8 | H | 4 | 4 ---------------+------------------+-------------------------------- 27 collections Shell color of the nuts varied between a brownish white and a pinkish white color when fully dried. From the trees used as a sample, there were 14 which might be classed in the brownish white categories, and the remainder (144) as pinkish white or creamy white. Types B and C were the ones which most frequently were found with the brownish white nutshell color. Type A was typically pinkish or creamy white in color.