Zaz. 
land, the shag-bark or shell-bark (Carya ovata) was by far the 
most valuable, both for its strong wood and delicious nuts; the 
mocker nut (Carya alba) and pig nut (Carya glabra) being much 
inferior in both respects. Mention should also be made of the 
groves of beech trees, with great stores of beech nuts, and of the 
abundance of the American chestnut, a species now existing 
on 
Long Island only in the form of dwarf stump-shoots, owing to 
the ravages of the chestnut 
a 
ight, a fungus disease that became 
epidemic on Long Island about thirty years ago. 
experiments of Dr. Arthur I. 
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The breeding 
Graves, of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden, with hybrids of the American and Japanese chestnuts, 
may, it is hoped, bring to Long Island a re-establishment of this 
valuable tree. There also is hope that the better and most rep- 
resentative woodlands now existing on Long Island may be pre- 
served by legislative action, giving to future generations some 
idea, however much diluted, of the appearance of Long Island in 
early colonial days. 
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