Stoke: "I don't use it with chestnuts for spring budding, but sometimes for summer budding. It will work well on any variety of Persian walnut, heartnut and black walnut. Place buds on the north and northeast side of tree to prevent sun injury." Question: "Do you find any difference in using buds from an eight or ten year old tree as against a younger tree?" Stoke: "No, not so long as it is healthy. For spring budding I don't care to have any trees too vigorous. Cut tops off young trees three to five days after budding, and force the buds into growth. If you delay too long the bud will die. I wouldn't try to bud trees unless bark is slipping." Member: "I have used parapin wax and covered it with old bread paper." Stoke: "That may work because the wax was shaded. Southern sun may melt parapin and paraffin waxes." Mr. Corsan: "Dentists, surgeons and wood carvers make the best grafters." Question: "Can the scions be cut with a small plane?" Stoke: "Anything you have to cut with a plane is too big. I never use a plane." Question: "What do you use a splice graft for?" Stoke: "Anything except walnut. In walnut I use a modified cleft graft, and I take care of the sap flow by placing the graft down about 1" or 1-1/4" below the cut (where the tree is cut off). Wax the scion but do not wax the cut. Let it bleed." Question: "What is the value of cut leaf black walnut?" Stoke: "Purely ornamental. Weschcke reports that it is very hardy with him." Rick: "What about the Lamb walnut?" Stoke: "We don't know whether the wood of grafted trees is curly or not. I sent Mr. Reed a limb from Lamb and he gave it to the forest laboratory and they found no evidence of curly grain." Rick: "Shouldn't it be propagated until we are sure?" Stoke: "We had Mr. Lamb himself talk before us at Roanoke and he told us about the parent tree. He doesn't know what makes one tree curly and another not." Korn: "Is that uncommon?" Stoke: "Not so very. Trees are most curly at the base and in the outer wood." Question: "Do you always leave that stub on black walnut?" Stoke: "Yes, but it should be removed later in the first summer." Question: "Where do you use your splice graft." Stoke: "On anything other than walnut, if scion and stock are the same size. Where stock is larger than scion I use the modified cleft graft up to sizes approaching one inch in the stock. For topworking larger stocks I use one of the forms of bark graft. For the large hickory stock Dr. Morris' bark slot graft is preferred. For large, thin-barked stocks the simple bark graft may be used. My original grafts of the Carr and Hobson Chinese chestnuts, made with scions received from Messrs. Carr and Hobson in the winter of 1932, are still perfect unions.