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Hulda Janney was the second appointment
for the afternoon, & she too gave us a treat
in the form of an original article on
the old trees of the vacinity.

The information she had collected was most
interesting, and the society owes her a vote
of thanks for the paper she so well prepared
for us. She first called our
attention to the old chestnut tree at Cherry
Grove, which measured 29 ft. in circumference
60 years ago- & told us of a
still larger one at Auburn.

"A black walnut tree has been found in
Howard Co. which bears walnuts that can
be cracked with the handle of a pen knife.
They crack but from 50 to 70 per cent
whole halves, & run in weight from
40 to 50 per cent kernel.

Henry Stabler exhibited a sample of these
at a nut show in N.Y., where it won
the 1^st prize in competition with 54
exhibits- & it now in honor bears his name.

Mention was made of the Bentley Apple,
also the Brooke apple, and of the pear
tree at Mt. Airy that has been bearing pears
for 100 years. "At Mt. Olney there is