Members shall be sent a notification of annual dues at the time they are due, and if not paid within two months, they shall be sent a _second notice_, telling them that they are not in good standing on account of non-payment of dues, and are not entitled to receive the annual report. At the end of thirty days from the sending of the second notice, a _third notice_ shall be sent notifying such members that unless dues are paid within ten days from receipt of this notice, their names will be dropped from the rolls for non-payment of dues. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS at the FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION of the NORTHERN NUT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION, INC. September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 Held in the MUSEUM OF THE BOTANICAL GARDENS BRONX PARK, NEW YORK CITY EXCURSIONS Baldwin, Long Island, Sept. 4 Stamford, Connecticut, Sept. 5 _Chairman_--PRESIDENT HARRY R. WEBER FIRST DAY--MORNING SESSION THE PRESIDENT: The meeting will please be in order, and we will have the secretary read his report. THE SECRETARY: Secretary's Report for 1924.--Fourteen years ago, on November 17, 1910, two women and ten men, seers and prophets, met for organization in this building at the invitation of Dr. N. L. Britton, at that time and now, Director of the New York Botanic Gardens. We meet here again today by reason of his unfailing kindness. Of the twelve persons present at that first meeting, three are here again, Dr. Britton, Dr. Morris and myself, and two are known to be dead, Prof. Craig of Cornell University, and Mr. Henry Hales, of Ridgewood, New Jersey. The association has held an annual convention each year of its existence except during the war, in 1918, when no formal meeting was held. An annual report has been published every year, except that the report of the proceedings of the first meeting was incorporated in the report of the second meeting, and the ninth report, that for 1918, has not yet been issued. The present secretary has held the office every year except in 1918 and 1919, during military service, when Mr. Bixby took his place. From an educational and scientific standpoint I think the association may be said to have fulfilled creditably its original declaration of purpose, "the promotion of interest in nut-bearing plants, their products and their culture." Many choice nuts have been brought to notice and perpetuated. The establishment of nurseries where grafted nut trees of choice varieties may be obtained has been encouraged. The art of grafting and propagating nut trees has been brought to a high degree of success by members of the association. Experimental orchards, both of transplanted nursery trees and of topworked native trees, have been established in widely separated parts of the country.