DR. MORRIS: That is a very important point.
PROFESSOR CLOSE: By doing that I know it is pollenated. I have been failing so many years I felt it was a loss of all the first part of the work.
DR. MORRIS: It is a great convenience to be able to pollenate at the same moment when you emasculate.
A MEMBER: I would like to have you kindly explain to what extent cross pollenation can be made practical to the ordinary grower.
DR. MORRIS: Let's say that in case of the butternut we wish to experiment with removal of the thick shell, and also to obtain less of that strong oily flavor; we wish to get rid of those two things. In order to do that I would first think of the Japanese walnut, _juglans cordiformis_, which has a much thinner shell and is less oily and more bland. Crosses between this Japanese walnut and the butternut we may fairly expect will sometimes give us a large, thin shelled butternut of good character. The next question is, who is going to do it? The men about my place are pretty busy, and this is rather delicate work. It is going to be a most inspiring field for the young folks and the ladies, because it is nice, pretty, ladylike work, and beside that its returns may be large. If your little daughter, ten years of age, knows that she may get $2,000 for a single cross that she has made, it is stimulating, because it is not every child ten years of age who can put $2,000 in the bank, as personal earnings of increment.
MR. MOSELY: I would like to ask just what results you expect from the cross pollenization of these nuts, and just how far they will differ from the parent type?
DR. MORRIS: You are bound to have continuance of one parent type, but in crossing with pollen from hybrids you may carry desirable characteristics through a series of generations and breed for what is wanted, possibly to the sixth generation or even further with some species.
MR. MOSELY: Then the type is not fixed until pollenization?
DR. MORRIS: By selecting the one showing the dominant characteristics you wish to preserve, you could breed through several generations and have an ideal type eventually.
MR. DOAN: I would like to ask how far the buds are developed in cold storage before the pollen can be used?