THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



EDUCATION AND RECREATION 



Volume IV APRIL 1912 Number 12 



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The Chestnut Trees Must Go. 

 Every student and lover of nature 

 has mourned on account of the sickness 

 and death of the chestnut trees. The 

 chestnut trees are our special friends 

 of the forest and around them are par- 

 ticularly pleasant memories of the time 

 when in our youth we gathered their 

 fruit. In their flowering and fruiting 

 they are of great interest in later bio- 

 logical studies. A more graceful shade 

 tree never existed. Thev have been 



tried and found true from our child- 

 hood to our old age. They have been 

 valuable in our poetry, our pathos and 

 our commerce. But even the most 

 skilled scientists have not been able to- 

 cope with the ravages of the terrible 

 fungous disease which attacks the trees 

 after the fungi hide themselves under 

 the bark. The sooner such trees are 

 cut out the better, for with no host tree 

 on which to feed and propagate, per- 

 haps the chestnut disease will die out, 



CUTTING DOWN CHESTNUT TREES AT SOUND BEACH. 



