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each year. This year, in late July, it was well supplied with 

 young burs. The owner states that he has noticed no efifects of 

 the blight. The trunk is on the whole healthy and sound, and yet 

 I found the blight fungus present in two spots. Apparently it 

 makes little advance. A few small dead liml)s were also present 

 this year which may have been killed by the blight fungus. The 

 fungus is abundantly present in this region, the woods about two 

 miles distant having formerly produced fine native chestnuts. At 

 present the usual basal shoots, both blighted and unblighted, may 

 be found in large numbers in these woods. 



Another interesting specimen is located on an estate at Syosset, 

 Long Island (Fig. 9). It is said to be a Spanish chestnut, although 

 it may have an admixture of Japanese blood. It is evidently a 

 grafted tree because one leader (there being two main trunks) 

 bears a single and the other three nuts in each bur. The leaves also 

 differ slightly in each leader. One trunk is about three feet in cir- 

 cumference breast high, and the other two and one-half feet. The 

 fungus is present in many places on both trunks, Ixit the tree is 

 growing well and the new growth is evidently more than replac- 

 ing the loss by blight. The smaller leader has a canker in the 

 trunk about one and one-half feet from the base with fruiting 

 bodies present, and the length of life of this trunk is obviously 

 dependent upon the ])rogress of the fungus. The owner har- 

 vests a good crop of nuts from this tree each year. 



Another valuable tree is growing on an estate at Kast Norwich, 

 Long Island. This is four feet one inch in circumference breast 

 high or about sixteen inches in diameter. It is 25-30 feet high 

 and has a spread of 45 feet. The leaves are a little too long for 

 C. crcnata, so that it may have, as Prof. J. F. Collins of the U. S. 

 De])t. of Agriculture has suggested, some admixture of European 

 stock. On the wdiole the trunk is very sound. On one side a 

 fungus lesion has evidently been entirely healed over. Yet the 

 blight is present here and there in the branches, and the gardener 

 says very few^ nuts have been produced for the last three years, 

 the burs falling off prematurely. 



Another specimen, evidently of hybrid nature, is located at 

 Oyster Bay. Long Island. This is about one foot in diameter 

 breast high, and is about thirty-five years old. The owner thinks 



