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iences with diseased trees of some sort, many of you with very serious 

 diseases, and some of you I know have had a wide experience with 

 the cliestnut blight, so you can draw your own conclusions as to the 

 significance of the facts that I have stated. 



As to the state laws for transporting material from one state to 

 another I am not posted, but I believe that we can be advised by 

 writing to the government at "Washington. 



Dr. Morris: We do not know whether the Washington govern- 

 ment will sterilize those scions and send them out for us, but there 

 should be some wav of sendingi from one state to another. * 



It seems to me that in all probability, the vital energy of the jDroto- 

 plasm of the endothia is diminishing. Quality, flavor, or anything you 

 please, is bound up with certain vitality, and that diminishes and finally 

 will cease. That is the reason for the endothia growing less now. 



Peu)1'. Collins: jNIv point was perhaps not exactly that. I 

 meant that the result is that, with tl;e average cases, we are now get- 

 ting chestnuts not so quickly destroyed. The explanation may be 

 exactly what you have stated. 



Dr. Morris: There are two factors to be considered. First, the 

 running down of the vital energy of the protoplasm; and second, in 

 the factors whicli affect the vital energy of the plant. 



Prof. Collins: In the paper I have just read there was men- 

 tioned the apparent niunber of trees in various parts of the country 

 wliich are very slowly dying from the blight, and some which have 

 resisted it entirely, so far; but that was not the point I desired to em- 

 phasize. There ;^re some around New York City which are still 

 growing, and Dr. Graves could tell us of this. 



Mr. O'Connor: Would it be desirable to take out an old tree 

 where there are new sprouts? One tree on Mr. Littlepage's place in 

 ^Maryland has a number of sprouts comingi up. I suggested that if 



^Decision From the U. S. Department of Ag'-iculture, Washington, D. C. 



In a letter of later date, addressed to Mr. C. A. Reed, Dr. B. T. 

 Galloway, of the U. S. Dept. of Agr., wrote regiarding the matter of dis- 

 tributing Merribrooke chestnut scions, as follows: 



"I have talked with Mr. Stevenson, of the Federal Horticultural Board, 

 regarding this matter, and he says that, while there is no federal quaran- 

 tine covering the chestnuts, as a matter of policy we have not been 

 letting any chestnuts or scions go through our hands into the non-blight 

 regions. Mr. Stevenson says that Dr. Morris himself might he able to 

 carry out the plan he suggests by dealing direct with some of the state 

 institutions in non-blight regions, selecting states that have no quaran- 

 tine against chestnuts." 



