Hie. 5. A Japanese-American hybrid 4+ vears old and nine feet, ten inches tall 
—the result of a cross of the Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata) owned by 
Mr. Renville S. Smith of Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y., with pollen from 
vestnut (Castanea dentata) in the region of Lake Ma- 
shoots of the American ¢ 
hopac, N. Y. Th 
Vilkomerson in the summer of 1932. In the summer of 1936 this tree bloomed 
ce cross was made by Miss Hester M. Rusk and Miss Hilda 
for the first time, bearing both pistillate and staminate flowers. Photographed 
Oct. 4, 1930, by Mr. Louis Buhle. (9259) 
