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upon by birds and squirrels as soon as the kernels are 

 well formed, few escaping to reach maturity, This 

 chestnut is of no economic value, but is worth preserv- 

 ing as an illustration of extremes in variation. The 

 original tree was found in the forest near Freehold, 

 Green Co., N. Y., by Mr. Harry Bagley, to whom I am 

 indebted for cions sent me in the spring of 1885. 

 Another and very similar variety was found about the 

 same time on Staten Island, N. Y., and this also has 

 been propagated, to a limited extent, as a curiosity. 



HATHAWAY. A very large and handsome native 

 variety, and one of the very best. A strong and vigorous 

 grower, and productive. Raised by Mr. B. Hathaway, 

 the veteran and widely known pomologist of Little 

 Prairie Ronde, Mich. Some thirty years ago Mr. Hath- 

 away purchased a half bushel of native chestnuts of a> 

 dealer in Ohio, and from these raised a large number of 

 trees for sale ; but a few were reserved for planting out 

 on his own grounds, and when these came into bearing 

 the one named here was selected for propagation, because 

 of its large size and productiveness. 



PHILLIPS. A large and handsome variety of excel- 

 lent flavor, with a very smooth, dark-brown shell. 

 Grafted trees exceedingly vigorous, upright growth, as 

 well as precocious and productive. The original tree is 

 growing in the grounds of the late Whitman Phillips, at 

 Ridgewood, N. J. Several years ago my attention was 

 called to a number of large varieties of the chestnut 

 growing in and near the village, and from these I ob- 

 tained cions for propagation ; but I name only one at 

 this time, reserving the others until more fully tested. 



This is rather an insignificant number of varieties 

 to be named among the many hundreds that are to be 

 found in almost every town or neighborhood where the 

 chestnut is a native, and yet I have been able to find 

 only one named in nurserymen's catalogues as being 



