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the eastern edi^e of the experimental ])l()t. Due in part to the 

 severe dronght of the ])ast summer, one of the Japanese (hed and 

 four of the Chinese. The location is not good, nor is the soil 

 dee]! enough, although fertile at and near the surface, to afiford the 

 hest development for the characteristically long tap roots of the 

 chest nn.t. Therefore, a shipment of young trees which we re- 

 cei\-ed from the U. S. D. A. in March \vere planted out on Afarch 

 25 in fairly rich, dee]) soil on land owned hy the writer in ITamden. 

 Connecticut, near New Haven. This plantation consisted of eigh- 

 teen Casfaiicii niollissiina, ahout four years old; ten C. Hcnr\i. also 

 ahout four years old. which is a rather large chestnut from central 

 and w^estern China; nineteen C. Scgiiiuii, ahout two years old, a 

 rather shruhhy species from central and eastern China; and five 

 hyhrids hetween the American chinquapin, a fairly disease-resistant 

 species, and the hairy Chinese chestnut, C. iiiollissiiua. During 

 the present season we have lost a few of these young trees due to 

 the drought, hut the rest are thrifty. On Novemher 27 we re- 

 ceived from the U. S. D. A. sixty-five seedlings of a forest type 

 of the Japanese chestnut, C. crriiala. These are to he planted out 

 also on the ilamden tract, Intt the groinid heing frozen at the time 

 of their recei]it they were heeled in and will he jilanted when the 

 ground is w^orkahle in the s]iring. Along with these seedlings we 

 heeled in twenty scions of hyhrid chestnuts originated and given 

 to us l)y Dr. Rohert T. Morris of New "^'ork City and Stamford, 

 Conn., the well-known cx])ert in nut growing. 



Larcjc Orirnldl ClirsI mils in Ihc Vicijiilv of Xnc York Cily. 

 Within a radius of sixtv-lA'c miles from New ^"ork Citv as a 

 center, there are some si)lcndid siiecimens of chestnut which are 

 availahle for hreeding stock'. Most of these ru'c the Jajxanese 

 chestnn.t. C. crcuata. I'erhaps the hest specimen is one of several 

 located at l-)rielle, Monmouth County, New- Jersey, and is the 

 property of ^\y. John TT. Folk. This tree, under the trade name 

 of " Jai)anese Ciant."' was purchased t8 vcars ago from a nursery 

 in Rochester, N. ^'., and therefore is now ahout twenty-three years 

 old. The circumference five feet ahove the groimd is 4 feet 3/4 

 inches, which is ecpiivalent to a diameter of ahout i l ''3 feet. 

 Tt is a handsome tree, esju^cially at flowering time — ahout July 

 I — is ahout 30 feet high and hears ahout one-half hushel of nuts 



