MR. MCCOY: Would it be possible to cross the English walnut and the black walnut and produce a nut of superior quality? DR. MORRIS: Yes, it is possible to cross them, but you do not often get a nut of superior quality. The tendency seems to be to have a nut of thick shell and of not high quality, but if you make a thousand of those crosses, out of the thousand you may get a few of just what you want. PROFESSOR CLOSE: I want to ask if you are always careful to apply the pollen when it is well ripened? DR. MORRIS: Yes, I have always been careful to apply it at just the time when it was well ripened, and that is of great importance in its bearing upon Mr. Reed's question. If I have pollen which is quite ripe I may perhaps catch it upon an ovule, but if it is not ripe I won't got the cross. I may add it a little too early or too late when the pistillate flower is unprepared and I won't get a cross. If I get my pollen just at the right time upon the pistillate flowers I may have a good cross, between varieties which do not cross readily. PROFESSOR CLOSE: In my experience in breeding apples, formerly I always waited until the pollen was ripe, and that meant I had to cover the blossoms with bags and depend on the weather for conditions favorable to pollenation. But four or five years ago I began pollenating much earlier and I have had good results. DR. MORRIS: That is a very important point. PROFESSOR CLOSE: By doing that I know it is pollenated. I have been failing so many years I felt it was a loss of all the first part of the work. DR. MORRIS: It is a great convenience to be able to pollenate at the same moment when you emasculate. A MEMBER: I would like to have you kindly explain to what extent cross pollenation can be made practical to the ordinary grower. DR. MORRIS: Let's say that in case of the butternut we wish to experiment with removal of the thick shell, and also to obtain less of that strong oily flavor; we wish to get rid of those two things. In order to do that I would first think of the Japanese walnut, _juglans cordiformis_, which has a much thinner shell and is less oily and more bland. Crosses between this Japanese walnut and the butternut we may fairly expect will sometimes give us a large, thin shelled butternut of good character. The next question is, who is going to do it? The men about my place are pretty busy, and this is rather delicate work. It is going to be a most inspiring field for the young folks and the ladies, because it is nice, pretty, ladylike work, and beside that its returns may be large. If your little daughter, ten years of age, knows that she may get $2,000 for a single cross that she has made, it is stimulating, because it is not every child ten years of age who can put $2,000 in the bank, as personal earnings of increment. MR. MOSELY: I would like to ask just what results you expect from the cross pollenization of these nuts, and just how far they will differ from the parent type?