THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Deming, what is your observation of the Stabler with one lobe? DR. DEMING: 50% are one lobe. MR. HERSHEY: Mr. Bixby found, I think, 60%. We don't know why there should be nuts with one lobe. DR. SMITH: In my observation of the Stabler, the percentage of one lobe nuts is very small, not more than 5%. MR. BRICKER: Also there is a large black walnut at Atalissa, with a very thin shell. I have seen some of them, however, that were not very well filled last year. THE PRESIDENT: Is that a little town in Iowa? MR. BRICKER: Yes. Below Iowa City, east of West Liberty. THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Wilkinson has something interesting to tell us about the discovery of a black walnut valued for its lumber. MR. WILKINSON: Possibly Professor Smith knows more about that than I do. The first I knew of it Mr. Lamb wrote that he had found an unusual figured walnut. He had already sent scions to Dr. Morris and Mr. Bixby, and Dr. Morris suggested he send me some. When the log came Mr. Lamb found it unusually highly figured. He traced it to where it was loaded. They went to the fields and chopped into the tops until they found the tree by the figure of the wood. It had been cut two months and the wood was entirely dry. Mr. Bixby sent me two very tiny grafts. The tree sawed out something over 60,000 feet of veneer that sold from 16 to 18 cents per square foot; quite a large tree. It sawed out five logs and the stump sawed out 500 feet. Several thousand dollars for the tree. I saw several pieces of the tree last year. The most beautiful thing I ever saw. Most highly figured log that ever came into the mill at Chicago. DR. ZIMMERMAN: Prof. Lake sent me scions named the Lion. DR. DEMING: The figure is not in the scion wood. DR. ZIMMERMAN: The scion wood I put on was quite curly. DR. SMITH: Does the curly character show in the sap wood or the heart? THE PRESIDENT: You have to go away from home to know what is going on there. It is the first I have known about that very interesting tree. I would like to get some trees of that curly type. Mr. W. K. Kellogg is very much interested in having us propagate that type. DR. ZIMMERMAN: Mr. Link told me Mr. Linton had some. MR. HARRINGTON: It seems to me very strange that the stump didn't sprout. MR. WILKINSON: The stump was used. DR. DEMING: There must have been roots. THE PRESIDENT: Sometimes it is difficult to get them to grow. MR. WEBER: Three miles northwest of Blufftown there is a natural hybrid between the white and chinquapin oaks. There are some samples out on the table. We picked up some of the nuts and found them edible. No trace of any bitterness whatever. You come out of Blufftown on No. 30. About a half mile above the town you turn to the left and go about a mile or more. It is at the intersection of the Erie Quarry road. It has a wire fence around it. DR. SMITH: How do you know it is a hybrid?