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Connecticut, Storrs, 
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Life Service, located at the University o 
Conn., visited our plantation at Hamden several times and gave 
us valuable advice and material for the control of this pest. In 
a later report we shall be able to devote more space to an account 
of this and other enemies. 
Pollen of Japanese and Chinese chestnuts was received from 
Mr. Bowen S. Crandall of the Division of Forest Pathology, Forest 
School, Athens, Ga., on May 19; of the American chestnut from 
Mr. I. J. Grassmann of Elizabeth, N. J.. on June 22 and 25; 
and of Castanea alnifolia from Mr. Joseph C. McDaniel, from 
Tallahassee, Fla., on July 5. 
Nuts were received in the fall as follows: 
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September. American chestnut from Mr. Walter S. Funnell, 
Yonkers, N.~ 
October. Renee chestnut from Mr. Henry B. Mosle, Litch- 
held, Conn.; Mr. J. Francis Saunders, Hartford, Conn. ; 
Mr. Clifford Ongley, Bantam, Conn.; Mr. |. Wolcott, 
Kennett Square, Pa.; Japanese chestnut through Mr. 
Harold LE. Willmott, from farm of Dr. Brinkmann, Hunt- 
ington, N. Y.; from Mr. Chas. J. Schlesinger, Monroe, 
Diy. May troien vir. P. Pirone, New Jersey Agricultural 
Experiment Station, from Dover, N. J.; Chinese chestnut 
from Jennings Nurseries, Ralston, N. ie 
November. American chestnut through Prof. larl H. Newcomer, 
from Marion, N. C.; from Dr. Chas. C. Lieb of New York 
City, from Seawall Hollow, Conn., through Mr. N. W. 
Hosley of Storrs, Conn.; from Miss Louise M. Norbery, 
Uxbridge, Mass.:; chinquapin, and American chestnut- 
chinquapin hybrid (?) from Mr. Mifflin H. Wilde. Perry 
Point, Md. 
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Acknowledgments—As in former years, we have enjoyed the 
cordial cooperation of the Division of Forest Pathology, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, in this work. Among the visitors to 
the plantation during the past summer were several prominent 
botanists, foresters, and geneticists. It is a pleasure to have an 
opportunity here to acknowledge the helpful suggestions and en- 
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