CHESTNUT BARK DISEASE. 371 



In New Jersey the chestnuts of the whole state have suffered. 

 In Pennsylvania the trouble is serious in the eastern half, and 

 quite bad in the southeastern part. The disease occurs gen- 

 erally in Delaware, but is especially bad in the northern counties, 

 where the chestnuts are most abundant. Maryland and Rhode 

 Island have the disease scattered, and serious in certain localities. 

 In Virginia and West Virginia the infections are apparently 

 few and inconspicuous. 



In Connecticut. The first specimens from Connecticut were 

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

 Stevens, Jr., of Stamford, who found the disease doing con- 

 siderable damage in this region during the summer. He also 

 mentioned that he thought he had seen it 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, of 

 Keney Park, Hartford, said that in the summer of 1905 he 

 found a tree on the Edgewood Park estate at Greenwich that 

 he is now sure had the blight. Forester Spring reported that 

 a farmer in the town of Easton noticed the disease as early 

 as 1905. These three towns are all in Fairfield County, near 

 the first reported outbreak in New York. 



Hodson (28) reported the blight in New London County 

 as early as 1908. Mr. N. J. Peck brought us a specimen from 

 Woodbridge, New Haven County, in the winter of 1909, and 

 reported that he had seen it in his woods for four or five 

 years. The first fruiting specimen collected by the writer 

 outside of Stamford was found at Morris Cove, New Haven 

 County, in September, 1908, though immature specimens were 

 seen that spring in Westville. 



By the end of 1908 the disease had been reported in all but 

 one of the twenty-three towns of Fairfield County, in eight 

 towns of New Haven County, and in one town of New London 

 County. By March, 1911, the writer (7, p. 716) had reports 

 of it in all of the twenty-three towns of Fairfield County, 

 twenty-one in New Haven, fourteen in Litchfield, seven in Hart- 

 ford, two in Middlesex, three in Tolland, and one each in 

 Windham and New London counties. Out of these seventy- 

 two towns all but seven were west of the Connecticut River. 

 In November, 1911 (n), it was reported in 121 towns of the 



