CHESTNUT BARK DISEASE. 



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first in the southwestern towns of the state but recent studies of 

 the disease prove that it was present to a greater or less degree 

 in scattered localities throughout the state as early as in these 

 reported towns. 



DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Chestnut blight is present in Massachusetts along and west of 

 the Connecticut River, in Rhode Island it is scattered and seri- 



FIG. VI. A-B. CANKERS ON SMOOTH (A) AND ROUGH (B) BARKED TREES. 



ous in certain localities, and it has also been reported from Ver- 

 mont and New Hampshire. In New York it is progressing 

 north along the Hudson River and is present in western 

 Long Island. In New Jersey the chestnut has suffered over the 

 entire state and in Pennsylvania the trouble is serious in the 

 eastern and bad in the southeastern part. The disease occurs gen- 

 erally in Delaware, while Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia 

 have it scatteringly, the points of infection being few and incon- 

 spicuous in the latter state. Thus we see that the disease is 



