mil will <){■ coiii-sc Id-jiii; .iImhiI I lie (Ici-linc of I lie I'll I im IS, unless it 

 has already' atlaiiUMl an iiiiiisii;il .ind laslinii \inilcii(c li-nin i(s 

 IM'csciit a.u'.nrcssivciK'ss. 



Tlia( clicstimls have in I he jiasi in onr simii lici-n Stjilcs snlTci-cd 

 I'roin disease or injnrv of some kind vel nnaeeonnled lor, no (»ne 

 who has lookeil up (he literal are of (he sniijecl can deny. I have 

 gathered loi;('(liei' statenieids of this sort from \arions sonrco.s, 

 but will not lake Hie time to present them here, h'rom the fact 

 thai no trained mycolonist, has studied these onllii'eaks in the 

 past, and fi-oiii the further faet that the observers (dieii speak 

 of I hem i)y such terms as "blight," ''root rot" and s(» forth, and 

 did not lind insot'ts rosi)()nsible, I, for one, am open to proof as 

 to their I'elatiou to Didporthc jximsitica, despite the statement of 

 two or three observers who have recently exannncMl trees in the 

 S(Mitli, that there is net such relationship. Anyway, the cliest- 

 nnfs have suffered severely in these States at different times dur- 

 ing the past seventy-five years, and have been apparently 

 crowded out of the lower lands, bnt they still seem to be qnite 

 vigoi'ous and abundant in the higher regions of those States, 

 since the chief object of the campaign in fighting Dia/iortltc para- 

 sificd seems to be to keep it north of the Potomac Kiver in order 

 to preserve the valnalde tindier said to exist sontli of it. 



THE CIIAIKMAX : A\'e are now to be favored l)y hearing an 

 illustrated lectnre on Chestnut Cnltnre, the speaker being Pro- 

 fessor N(dson I'\ Davis, of I'ucknell Universitv, T.ew isburu. Pa. 



CHESTNrT (M'i/rri;i:. 



AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE BY PROFESSOR NELSON F. DAVIS, OF 

 BUCK NELL UNIVERSITY, LEWISBURG, PA. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and (lentlemen : I Avish to take yon 

 to-night on a little trip to Irish Valley, sitnated near Shaniokin, 

 Pa. T will take you (Ui this trip by a series of lantern slides. 

 I wish to show you to-night what has been done in spite of ene- 



