Early Development of Chestnut Sprouts. 47 



old-aged parent, or an incomplete attachment of the sprouts due 

 to infection from a diseased parent stump. 



It appears certain that the character of the later growth and 

 both the quality and quantity of the final crop in the case of 

 sprout forests depends to a very considerable degree upon the 

 conditions under which the crop is started. These may be either 

 natural or artificial. There are some of these influential factors 

 in the early life making for the success or failure of the crop 

 which can to a degree at least be controlled by man. 



