PROGRAMME 



OPENING SESSION 

 Tuesday, February 20, 2 o'clock P. M. 



OTUJANIZATION OF THE CONFERENCE. 



1. (Jdll to Onlcr <ni(l Address of Welcome to Delegates and Visit- 



iufj Friends, hy the Uonorahle John K. Tener, (jovernor of 

 . Pennsylvania. 



Election of Permanent Chairman for the Conference. 



Election of Two Secretaries. 



Desiynation of Official Reporters. 



Appointment of a Committee on Resolutions. 



2. Responses to the (iovernor's Address hy Dcleyalcs on P>(lmlf 



of the States Represented. 



3. ''Jlistorical Review and the Pathological Aspects of the Chest- 



nut Bark Disease."' 



A discourse and illustrated lecture bj^ Dr. Uaveu Metcalf, 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washiugtou, D. C. (Dr. 



Metcalf s paper Mill summarize the record of work to date, 



ami present the leading patliological features of this tree; 



disease.) 



^Nfany of the lantern views will be shown for the first time, 

 having been especially made for this occasioh. 



4. "Can the Chestnut Park Disease he Controlled/'' 



By Prof. F. C. Stewart, N. Y. Agricullnial Experiment 

 Station, Geneva, N. Y. 



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