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Whether this is due to the fact that each year there are fewer 
spores of the parasite abroad, or to the decreasing virulence of 
"in the direction of more blight- 
resistant stock, can not be definitely stated on the basis of the 
evidence at hand. 
To enable us to study this problem further we particularly de- 
, 
the parasite, or to ‘‘ bud sporting 
sire to receive nuts borne on these basal shoots of native chestnut. 
They should not be allowed to become dry before they are mailed 
to us. A few days in a heated room are apt to be fatal. They 
should be wrapped in moist cotton, paper napkins, or moss, 
immediately after gathering, and mailed to the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden. All such nuts will be carefully planted by us, and the 
resulting trees labelled with the name of the finder and the 
locality. We already have 76 such trees, from nuts coming from 
locations ranging from Asheville, North Carolina, to Portland, 
Maine. 
A list of nuts, with their senders, which were received in 1937, 
follows: 
Nuts Received from Outside Sources and Planted 
in Cold Frames, Fall of 1937 
Sept. 28. Castanea dentata from Mr. Frederick M. Adler, New 
Haven, Conn. 
*Oct. 1. C. dentata from Mr. Gilbert L. Smith, Wassaic, N. Y. 
C. dentata * C. crenata from Mr. Gilbert L. Smith, 
Wassaic- Nw ¥. 
Oct. 3. C. dentata from Mr. Gilbert L. Smith, Wassaic, N. Y. 
Oct. 7. C. dentata from Mrs. Thomas P. Boyd, South Kent, 
Conn. 
C. dentata from Mr. F. G. Guntner, White Plains, N.Y. 
C. dentata from Mrs. F. C. Nicodemus, Smithtown 
Branch b.1. 
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* Mr. Gilbert L. Smith, Farm Supervisor at the Wassaic State School, 
Dutchess Co., N. Y., has found two very good, evidently somewhat disease- 
resistant, native Americans (not sprouts) in his neighborhood, and during the 
summer he intercrossed them, as well as pollinating some females with Japanese 
pollen. Most of the resulting nuts he turned over to us for planting and 
culture. We shall report on them further next year. Mr. Smith sent us also 
many nuts from native sprouts near Wassaic. 
