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Single trees are treated by removing the affected branches and 

 painting over the cut ends with coal tar to prevent reinfection. 



For further details on this fungus consult: Murrill, '' A New 

 Chestnut Disease," Torreya, Sept., 1906; Farmers' Bulletin 467, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture; Metcalf, '* Diseases of the 

 Chestnut and Other Trees," Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc, August, 



Fig. 32, Chestnut-blight disease, which occurs in small yellowish pustules the size 

 of a pin head. A, section of pustule showing perithecia; B, asci with sporidia; a, usual 

 form; b, form rarely found; C, sporidia; D, summer spores. — After Murrill. 



1912; Farlow, "Fungus of the Chestnut-Tree Blight," Science, 

 May 10, 191 2. 



Basidiomycetes. — The Basidiomycetes are the most highly 

 organized of the Fungi. The mycelium consists of white branch- 

 ing threads and is usually concealed in the substratum. In the 

 cultivation of the edible mushrooms propagation is by means of 

 the mycelium, which is known commercially as " spawn." It is 

 recognized, however, that mushrooms can not be propagated in 



