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carried on our investigations with tbs usual appropriations of 

 our State. We are asking for no special fund. 



I have a paper which I desire to present, and I want to state 

 that it is signed not only by myself as botanist, but also by Mr. 

 Spring, State Forester: 



CHESTNUT BLIGHT SITUATION IN CONNECTICUT. 



First Reports. 



The first specimens of chestnut blight from Connecticut were 

 sent to the Experiment Station in November, 1907, by F. V. 

 Stevens of Stamford, who had found the disease doing consider- 

 able damage in his region during that summer. He also stated 

 that he thought he had seen the disease in one or two other towns 

 in the state. Since that report, others have stated to us that 

 they had seen the disease earlier, but had not known its nature 

 at the time. For example, Mr. G. H. Hollister, who is here to- 

 day, states that in the summer of 1905 he found a tree on the 

 Edge wood Park Estate at Greenwich that he now believes to 

 have had the blight. Our forester reports that a farmer in the 

 town of Easton also noticed the disease as early as 1905. These 

 three towns are all in Fair-field county, next to New York State. 

 In the winter of 1909, Mr. Newton J. Peck brought a specimen to 

 the Station from Woodbridge, New Haven County, and stated 

 that he had noticed the disease in his forest for four or five years. 

 So far, then, we have no information of the presence of the dis- 

 ease in Connecticut before 1905. 



Subsequent Reports. 



In the report of the Connecticut Experiment Station for 190S, 

 we noted the disease in twenty-two of the twenty-three towns 

 of Fairfield County, in eight towns of New Haven County, and 

 we had an unverified report of its occurrence in New London 

 County, in the eastern part of the State, making thirty-one towns 

 in all. 



In the Station report for 1909-10, we listed the disease from 

 all the twenty -three towns of Fairfield County, twenty-one towns 

 of New Haven County, fourteen of Litchfield, seven of Hart- 

 ford, two of Middlesex, three of Tolland, one of Windliam mid 

 one of New London County. Thus we found the disease 



