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as Bedford County, Virginia, according to R. C. Jones,^ the State 

 Forester. Mr. Jones writes, "This disease is now quite prevalent in 

 the northern part of Virginia, particularly in the Blue Ridge section, 

 and has been found as far southwest as Bedford County. It is not at 

 the present time known to occur at all south and west of Bedford 

 County, but it appears to be spreading and will probably kill the 

 chestnut trees throughout the State." Only a single county separates 

 Bedford County from North Carolina. 



South of Virginia, the chestnut blight has been reported from but 

 two places: first, on July lo, 1913, when H. R. Fulton, the Plant Pa- 

 thologist of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 West Raleigh, put out a Press Bulletin (No. 26) calling attention to 

 the fact that the blight has been found in Guilford County. This was 

 traced to a nursery and it had spread from the nursery trees to neigh- 

 boring native chestnut trees in one woodlot. This infection was re- 

 ported thoroughly cut out in early summer of 1913. Reports in the 

 Plant Disease Survey at Washington for 1914 from North Carolina, 

 however, show "continued spread in native chestnut and in nursery" 

 in Guilford County. A later report to the Plant Disease Survey, dated 

 1916, shows blight present in small grove near Greensboro, only a few 

 miles from Pomona, also in Guilford County. 



The second case of blight is in South Carolina at Society Hill. On 

 Christmas, 1914, J. T. Rogers of the Federal Horticultural Board, 

 Washington, D. C, purchased several small paragon chestnut trees 

 from the Van Lindley Nursery, Pomona, Guilford County, North Car- 

 olina, and planted them at his home at Society Hill, Darlington County, 

 S. C, in the eastern part of the State. Mr. Rogers states that there is no 

 native chestnut or any chestnut blight within a hundred miles of 

 Society Hill. The disease seems to have incubated in these trees or 

 to have escaped all notice for three years, for on December 31, 191 7, 

 he discovered the blight on one of these chestnut trees. A specimen 

 collected from this tree a year later, December 31, 1918. has been pos- 

 itively identified by Dr. Neil Stevens of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 as infected by the chestnut blight (Bndothia parasitica.) None of the 

 southern States, North Carolina. South Carolina. Kentucky, Tennessee, 

 Alabama, or Georgia, which are all in the chestnut range, have adopted 

 quarantine measures for preventing blighted chestnut nursery stock 

 from coming into their States. 



In Kentucky and Tennessee chestnut timber is quite a factor in the 



'Jones, R. C. : Farm Forestry in Virginia, Bulletin No. 12, Virginia Geological 

 Commission, Office of State Forester, pp. 54 and 55, December, 1917. 



