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  cording 
  to 
  Powell* 
  general 
  dissemination 
  in 
  the 
  Delaware 
  section 
  

   began 
  with 
  introductions 
  by 
  Eleuthers 
  Irenee 
  dii 
  Pont 
  de 
  Nemours, 
  

   made 
  at 
  about 
  1803. 
  It 
  is 
  said 
  that 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  original 
  trees 
  

   planted 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  near 
  the 
  present 
  site 
  of 
  the 
  du 
  Pont 
  Powder 
  

   mills 
  by 
  Mr. 
  du 
  Pont, 
  still 
  survived 
  when 
  Mr. 
  Powell 
  recorded 
  

   their 
  history 
  in 
  1898. 
  

  

  The 
  spread 
  of 
  both 
  European 
  and 
  Japanese 
  chestnuts 
  and 
  their 
  

   general 
  trial 
  throughout 
  the 
  Eastern 
  States 
  has 
  been 
  narrated 
  at 
  

   former 
  meetings 
  of 
  this 
  association. 
  The 
  chestnut 
  blight, 
  discov- 
  

   ered 
  on 
  Long 
  Island 
  in 
  1904, 
  after 
  it 
  had 
  apparentlj^ 
  gained 
  several 
  

   years' 
  headway, 
  and 
  which 
  now 
  seems 
  fairly 
  certain 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  

   introduced 
  from 
  Japan, 
  has 
  so 
  monopolized 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  orchard- 
  

   ists, 
  foresters, 
  landscape 
  gardeners 
  and 
  others 
  interested 
  in 
  the 
  

   chestnut 
  that 
  for 
  the 
  time 
  being 
  little 
  is 
  being 
  done 
  with 
  it, 
  other 
  

   than 
  to 
  study 
  and 
  discuss 
  this 
  disease. 
  What 
  the 
  final 
  outcome 
  

   will 
  be 
  no 
  one 
  can 
  predict, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  improbable 
  that 
  our 
  pathol- 
  

   ogists 
  will 
  discover 
  some 
  practical 
  means 
  of 
  control, 
  or 
  that 
  a 
  

   natural 
  enemy 
  to 
  the 
  blight 
  will 
  appear. 
  Nor 
  is 
  it 
  unhkely 
  that 
  im- 
  

   mune 
  strains 
  of 
  chestnuts, 
  either 
  native 
  or 
  foreign, 
  will 
  replace 
  our 
  

   present 
  groves 
  and 
  orchards, 
  in 
  case 
  other 
  efforts 
  fail. 
  

  

  Another 
  nut 
  which 
  has 
  received 
  a 
  large 
  degree 
  of 
  attention 
  at 
  the 
  

   hands 
  of 
  the 
  planters 
  and 
  upon 
  which 
  hopes 
  have 
  been 
  built 
  from 
  

   time 
  to 
  time 
  is 
  the 
  hazel, 
  or 
  filbert. 
  Here 
  again, 
  history 
  seems 
  to 
  

   have 
  failed 
  us, 
  for 
  as 
  j^et 
  the 
  writer 
  has 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  learn 
  but 
  little 
  

   regarding 
  the 
  early 
  introductions 
  into 
  this 
  country. 
  In 
  his 
  Nut 
  

   CuUurist, 
  published 
  in 
  1896, 
  IMr. 
  Fuller 
  (A. 
  S.) 
  reasoned 
  that 
  at 
  that 
  

   time 
  plants 
  of 
  the 
  European 
  hazels 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  grown 
  in 
  the 
  

   gardens 
  of 
  this 
  country 
  for 
  at 
  least 
  a 
  hundred 
  years. 
  Writers 
  on 
  

   pomology 
  make 
  little 
  reference 
  to 
  this 
  nut, 
  but 
  according 
  to 
  Mr. 
  

   Fuller, 
  nurserymen's 
  catalogs 
  listed 
  hazel 
  varieties 
  all 
  through 
  the 
  

   early 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  century. 
  It 
  was 
  believed 
  that 
  the 
  hazel 
  

   promised 
  much 
  for 
  the 
  gardener 
  and 
  the 
  general 
  planter 
  who 
  wished 
  

   for 
  early 
  returns. 
  The 
  species 
  seemed 
  capable 
  of 
  readily 
  adapting 
  

   itself 
  to 
  cultivation, 
  and 
  being 
  a 
  shrub 
  rather 
  than 
  a 
  tree, 
  it 
  required 
  

   little 
  space. 
  It 
  could 
  be 
  cultivated 
  along 
  with 
  other 
  garden 
  prod- 
  

   ucts 
  at 
  Httle 
  additional 
  expense 
  for 
  labor. 
  Being 
  an 
  early 
  bearer 
  

   it 
  doubtless 
  appealed 
  strongly 
  to 
  the 
  normal 
  American 
  demand 
  for 
  

   quick 
  returns. 
  

  

  Nevertheless, 
  this 
  nut 
  met 
  with 
  its 
  mortal 
  foe 
  in 
  the 
  way 
  of 
  a 
  

   native 
  fungus 
  which 
  in 
  a 
  great 
  many 
  sections 
  has 
  proved 
  entirely 
  

  

  * 
  G. 
  Harold 
  Powell, 
  Bull. 
  XLII, 
  Delaware 
  Agricultural 
  Experiment 
  Station, 
  

   1898. 
  

  

  