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No. of trees Species or variety Source 
FP 530; Castanea mollissima From seed obtained on the San 
Francisco market, said to 
have been collected in Chahar 
province, China (40°-42° N. 
at.) and forwarded to Tien- 
tsin by camel caravan 
These seedlings were planted out at Hamden on April 19 and, 
with one exception, finished the year in a thrifty condition. 
Of the 80 “natural” nuts, 7c. those which had developed with- 
out artificial pollination in our own plantations and were planted 
out in the fall of 1934 in newly cleared forest land in “ spots” 6 
feet apart, only 10 germinated and developed young seedlings. 
Moles, field mice, and fungi got the rest. We filled up the blanks 
this fall with other “ natural”? nuts and planted about 100 in addi- 
tion. This time we wrapped each nut in a slender cylinder (com- 
pressed at each end) of old and therefore somewhat weakened 
wire netting, in the hope of thus outwitting the rodents, and yet 
giving the plumule and hypocotyl an opportunity to get out of 
their prison. 
Chinquapins—We find that the chinquapin nuts which we re- 
ceived from the U. S. D. A. last year through the Plant Introduc- 
tion Station at Savannah, Ga., should be called Castanea Ashet, 
not C. pumila. As our list of trees shows (p. 74), we have now 
25 of these Ashe chinquapins growing on our plantation. This 
last fall (1935) we received other chinquapin species, as will be 
seen from the list. 
The list of the total number of individuals of the various species, 
varieties, and hybrids now growing at Hamden, Conn., follows: 

CHESTNUT SPECIES, VARIETIES, AND Hyprips GrowinGc At HAMDEN, Conn 
1935 
Name Number of Trees 
Castanea dentata—American Chestnut ........... 0.02 e eee eee 44 
Gesaiiva==S patiichma@hest nuts hey ees acetate ee na a. Seen 75 
G@rcrenata—) apaneses: Chestnutm. re tira ane oe eee nam eeeenies 40 
C. crenata (forest type)—Japanese Chestnut var. ..........0. ol 
C. mollissima—Hairy Chinese Chestnut .................---05 44 
C. mollissima var. Mammoth—C hinese Chestnut var. ......... 2 
Ce Sicouui— Chinese Chinuadin, gate. ae eee eae 9 
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