(Reading in part) "My walnut trees are doing well and have many more nuts than ever before. The filberts planted two years ago, also have some, and the chestnuts, those the blight have left me, are covered with burs. There are beech nuts, too.--I intend to keep on planting chestnut trees, in spite of the blight." Mr. C. S. Ridgway, Lumberton, New Jersey, writes as follows: "There are very few nut trees in our vicinity. In fact, very few except what I have--some large old pecans at Mt. Holley, but the fruit is so small they are not gathered." The next letter is from Mr. Howard Spence, of Ainsdale, Southport, England. Mr. Spence writes: "During the last year I have got one of our horticultural research stations interested in the subject of walnut culture and just recently the headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries also. The latter are using a small pamphlet on nut culture generally, to which I have contributed some facts. But a point of more definite interest at the moment is that the Minister has agreed to instruct all their inspectors over the country to make a collection of all walnuts of merit and forward them to me for classification and identification of varieties which may be worth perpetuating. As almost all the large number of trees in this country are seedlings I am hopeful that some interesting material may be located." Here is a letter from Mr. Richard H. Turk, Vice-President for the state of Washington: "Your request for a report from this Pacific Coast state came as a surprise. The Western Walnut Growers' Association is very strongly organized as regards Oregon and Washington, and it is difficult to persuade our nut growers here to join an association with its base of operations so far removed as the Northern Nut Growers' Association. I believe that I have been responsible for an additional membership of at least one or two which I think can be considerably augmented this fall.