HYBRID CHINQUAPIN CHESTNUT LOADED WITH BURRS 



It is about fifteen years ago that Dr. Van Fleet fertil-zed in his home place at Little 

 Silver, N. J., the chestnut flowers with pollen from the chinquapin which gave rise to 

 this hybrid plant and through these years its originator has seen and studied the offspring 

 of the first cross dozens of times in the early mornings when no executive activities or 

 "pressing engagements" disturbed his thoughts. (Fig. 5.) 



