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Common Trees 



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CHESTNUT 



Castanea dentata, (Marshall) Bork. 



O TREE has brought more real joy to boys and girls 

 and grown folks than the Chestnut. 



The leaves arc simple, alternate, 6 to 8 inches long, sharp- 

 pointed and coarsely toothed. 



The flowers appear 

 in June or July. They 

 arc arranged in slender, 

 yellowish-white, pencil- 

 like plumes. The seed- 

 producing occur in 

 small numbers near the 

 base of the plumes. 



The fruit is a prickly 

 bur with 1 to 5 nuts 

 maturing in September 

 or October. 



The bark on branches 

 and small trunks is 

 smooth, brownish and 

 close-fitting: on old 

 trunks becomes grayish- 

 brown and deeply fur- 

 rowed. The twigs are 

 smooth, greenish to 

 brown, dotted with nu- 

 merous small white 

 breathing pores. The 

 buds are alternate, %. 

 of an inch long, blunt- 

 pointed, covered with 

 2 to 3 chestnut brown 

 scales. 



CHESTNUT 



One-fourth natural size. 

 Twisr sections and single flowers enlari?ed. 



The wood is light, soft, not strong, coarse-grained, dur- 

 able. It is used for posts, poles, tics, general construction, 

 interior finish, and many other uses. 



The Chestnut is found from Maine to Michigan, and 

 south to the Carolinas and Georgia and Arkansas. It is 

 common in eastern Ohio, extending westward to Lorain, 

 Crawford, Franklin, Pickaway, Highland and the center of 

 Adams county. The deadly chestnut blight is destroying 

 it rapidly. No remedy is known to control this disease. 



