MR. VOLLERTSEN: We have been using an ordinary way of budding.
An ordinary seedling can be used to good advantage for grafting. I have
found in grafting in winter they do not seem to grow as well. In our
fall layering we naturally get a larger plant.

THE PRESIDENT: Do we understand that these hazels that have
borne for twenty-five years are European hazels?

MR. VOLLERTSEN: Yes; European hazels. I have had them under my
care since 1886, and never noticed any blight.

A MEMBER: Can't you explain to us, with one of your specimens,
your method of spring layering?

MR. VOLLERTSEN: In layering them, we practically don't cover
them at all for the time being. They are merely pinned down.

DR. MORRIS: Do you cut the bark?

MR. VOLLERTSEN: Not on them. After they have grown some we
cover them up. We find this a very successful way. We get younger and
smaller plants in the fall lay.

THE PRESIDENT: I should like to ask Dr. Morris a question. In
this native hazel, does it keep on spreading under ground?

DR. MORRIS: One single plant, planted in a pasture lot and not
interfered with will in a few years occupy practically that whole
pasture lot. In my part of the country this is true; how is it with you,