34 EXrEiiLMENT STATION. [Jim. 



Two or three year old sprout growths easily fall a prey to the 

 disease, more often near the base where the light is more or 

 less excluded and where there is more moisture. In the case 

 of old, rough bark trees the infection occurs first on the younger 

 branches and twigs, but very few old trees are affected as com- 

 pared with the younger trees in our locality. The unusual 

 amount of deterioration and tlic dying out of the chestnut every- 

 where common, which is in no way associated with the blight, 

 have led many to exaggerate the extent of infection from the 

 fungus, many hundreds of trees having been pronounced in- 

 fected when they were not. The real blight is surely a serious 

 enough thing without exaggeration considering the melancholy 

 fact that no practical and efficient remedy or even suggestion 

 of one is in sight. 



