
1G. 6. Japanese-American chestnut (C. crenata X Castanea dentata) at chestnut 
trial grounds, Hamden, Connecticut. 11 feet 2 inches in height, and 2% inches in di- 
ameter at base, at the end of its fourth year of growth (Oct. 1935). The normal 
height-growth for native American Chestnut is 1 foot per year. This tree has never 
been fertilized and very little pruned. During 1935 it grew 4 feet 2 inches. (8809) 
