REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EXHIBITS.
Reading edition
By Department of Horticulture, New York State College of Agriculture.
A collection of the walnuts of commerce, comprising 35 varieties, shown with a specimen of each in section.
A collection of 28 varieties of filberts.
A collection of 35 varieties of pecans.
The Morris collection of edible nuts of the world. This includes not only the nuts of the North, but the fullest collection of the nuts of the tropics that has ever been brought together.
By J. G. Rush, West Willow, Pennsylvania.
Two plates of black walnuts; one plate showing hybridity between Persian walnut and butternut; one plate Paragon chestnuts; one plate especially large American sweet chestnuts.
By A. C. Pomeroy, Lockport, New York.
Four plates of walnuts, showing variation of seedlings; grown on trees varying from six to eight years old.
By W. N. Roper, Petersburg, Virginia.
One plate Mantura pecans.
By T. P. Littlepage, Washington, D. C.
An exhibit of eighteen varieties of seedling pecans, grown in the Wabash region of Indiana and Kentucky. These seedlings represent very promising varieties, some of them being exceedingly thin shelled, most of them well filled and symmetrical in form. Of these, five have been named, to wit: Greenriver, Warwick, Hodge, Hoosier, and Major. Mr. Littlepage exhibits a plate of Juglans regia and a fine sample of Juglans nigra.