Hollick : Chestnut Disease on Staten Island i 27 



The most disquieting fact is that the disease is steadily spread- 

 ing from- this vicinity. It has now reached up the Hudson River 

 as far as Poughkeepsie and into the adjacent parts of Con- 

 necticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. It has also been re- 

 ported from as far south as the District of Columbia and west 

 as far as Altoona, Pennsylvania. Thus far only the chestnuts 

 and the southern chinquapin have been attacked. All of our 

 other forest trees seem to be immune. No remedy has yet been 

 found, and the nature of the disease and the method of its propa- 

 gation and growth make this an exceedingly difficult problem. 

 Unless it very soon ceases of itself, as other epidemics often do, 

 the chestnut, in this vicinity at least, will soon be extinct. 



