_Discipline._ The committee on membership may make recommendations to the association as to the discipline or expulsion of any member. _Committees._ The association shall appoint standing committees of three members each to consider and report on the following topics at each annual meeting: first, on promising seedlings; second, on nomenclature; third, on hybrids; fourth, on membership; fifth, on press and publication. Northern Nut Growers Association FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING NOVEMBER 18 AND 19, 1913 AT WASHINGTON, D. C. The fourth annual meeting of the Northern Nut Growers Association was held, in conjunction with the meetings of the American Pomological Society, the Society for Horticultural Science, and the Eastern Fruit Growers Association, in the new National Museum building at Washington, D. C, during "Fruit Week," November 17 to 22, 1913, the meeting of the Association being on the 18th and 19th. The first session was called to order at 11 A. M. in Room 3. In the absence of the President the chair was occupied by Professor W. N. Hutt of North Carolina. THE CHAIRMAN: Ladies and Gentlemen: If you will come to order, we will begin the meeting of the Northern Nut Growers Association. It is unfortunate that our president is called away on important business. He has asked me to take his place and we will do the best we can. I will ask the secretary to read a communication. THE SECRETARY: I have this telegram from Mr. Littlepage, our president: "Please express to the Northern Nut Growers Association my profound regrets that I cannot be with them. No organization has ever been formed that contained finer and more sincere men than ours. I invite the Association to come to Indiana next year. I will take you along the banks of the Wabash, the Ohio and Green River, where the pecan trees grow so big that the sun has to go around. I send best wishes for a successful meeting." THE CHAIRMAN: Mr. Pomeroy has kindly consented to give us a talk on walnuts. EXPERIENCES AND EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PERSIAN WALNUT A. C. POMEROY, NEW YORK When our secretary asked me to prepare a paper on this subject, I thought it would be very simple, but after making a beginning I found that about all I knew on nut culture was my own experiences--successes and failures--covering a period of about twenty-five years. During the past year better data have been kept of the behavior of the Persian walnut trees under my observation, than in former years. Hereafter it is my intention to keep a more detailed record of the time of the appearance of the nutlet blossoms of each tree, which is of the utmost importance to those interested in the growing of the Persian walnut in the North and East. In order to keep a better record of each tree I have numbered the old original trees, planted by my father, from 1 to 7.