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In response to my appeal, in last year’s report, for more land 
on which to plant our trees, several people came forward with 
generous offers. Literally hundreds of acres are now available to 
us whenever we are ready to plant them. 
By the cordial cooperation of the Northeastern Forest Experi- 
ment Station at New Haven, through its Director, Mr. C. Ed- 
ward Behre, and of Dr. E. J. Schreiner of the same station, the 
assistance of several trained technical assistants was given to us 
during the flowering season of the chestnuts, in June and July. 
Largely as a result of this help, we harvested in October 704 
vybrid nuts. When we began our hybridizing work, in 1930, we 
were much elated at the result—10 nuts. The results this year 
are indeed a contrast, and we must emphasize the fact that with- 
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out the conscientious and enthusiastic assistance of the young 
people who joined us for this period, so rich a harvest could not 
have been obtained. 
Pollen of the chestnut was received at Hamden, Conn., from 
the following institutions or persons, whose splendid cooperation 
we take pleasure in acknowledging: 
June 26. Division of Forest Pathology, Washington, D.C. Pol- 
len of C. sativa and ‘‘Boone”’ (C. crenata X C. dentata); 
also: © demo (Fr. P. 555}. 
June 30. Mr. Alfred J. Frueh, West Cornwall, Conn.  C. dentata. 
July 1. Mr. J. J. McKenna and Mr. Walter J. Henning, Read- 
ing, Pa. C. dentata. 
7. Mr. Samuel Eliot Codman, Bolton, Mass. C. dentata. 
12. Professor H. M. Jennison, Great Smoky National Park, 
Tenn. C. dentata. 
13. Mr. Milo N. Wood, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. 
D. A., Sacramento, Calif. C. sativa. 
13. Mr. Alfred Rehder, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, 
Mass. C. sativa, C. pumila, and C. neglecta (C. den- 
tata X C. pumila). 
Aug. 20. Professor Frederick S. Baker, University of California, 
Berkeley, Calif. Castanopsis sempervirens. 
If pollen does not reach us before July 4, it is in most cases too 
late for us to use it. However, some of the late arriving pollen 
we used on C. Seguinit, which blooms all summer. 
