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fruit here ; but for the last two seasous, it has done this, and matured fine 

 specimens. It shows a manifest tendency to over-production, and must be 

 severely thinned as a preventive. The foliage is beautifully glossy and 

 healthy; but the young shoots are so liable to blight that constant watch- 

 fulness and severe cutting have proved necessary in the case. 



The other varieties have, so far, proved to be free from blight, and few 

 if any cases of the red rust, Roestelia aurantiaca, have appeared this 

 season. 



The spot or scab Morthiera Mespili upon the foliage, so injurious last 

 year, has proved equally so during the current season. The visitations 

 so far have been mostly, if not wholly, confined to the orange quince 

 which apparently from this cause have, in several cases, made very feeble 

 growths 



NUTS. 

 CHESTNUT— Castanea Vesca. 



Of 'chestnuts the following have been planted : Hathaway is a very 

 large variety of our native chestnut, originated by B. Hathaway of Little 

 Prairie Ronde, Michigan. Two root-grafted plants received from him in 

 1890, and carefully planted, made a rather feeble growth during the suc- 

 ceeding summer, and were obviously still living on the opening of the 

 spring of 1891; but one of them failed to start and the other, after a 

 feeble effort, also died. 



Seeds from the original tree, which had been bedded in earth through 

 the winter, were also sent me, and were duly planted. Several of those 

 have done well and are now well-established plants. It is not, however, 

 to be expected that they will, with certainty, transmit the characteristics 

 of the parent. 



Japan, grafted; Japan, home grafted; Japan, imported grafted; Japan 

 Giant; Japan Seedling, and Japan Sweet, are alleged varieties of this 

 family, obtained from different sources during 1890 and 1891. 



Paragon (which is now known to be a seedling from the European or 

 Spanish chestnut) was planted in 1888, and has now produced fruit for 

 two successive seasons, which, we regret to say, has, in both cases, proved 

 abortive; possibly, if not probably, for the reason so frequently given, that 

 the pollen matures and falls before the pistils become receptive, there 

 having been no other fruiting tree in the vicinity. 



Spanish chestnut trees were also procured and planted during the 

 spring of 1890, which are in growing condition. 



CHINQUAPIN — Castanea pumila — Dwarf Chestnut. 



Recognizing the difficulty of transplanting this, seeds were procured 

 from Tennessee in the autumn of 1889 and planted at once, but all failed 

 to vegetate the next spring. During a visit to Washington in September 

 last, we gathered a few ripe nuts from the adjacent forests of Maryland, 

 which, on my arrival at home, were at once imbedded in earth to be 

 planted next spring, hoping, between this and the possible procuring of 

 rooted plants at planting time, to be able to start plants for trial. 



