Mr. Levison reports all the chestnut trees of Forest Park, 

 Brooklyn, to be either dead or dying, and many in Prospect 

 Park to be seriously affected. Wherever he has found the chest- 

 nut tree in Brooklyn, he has found the disease. 



The natural result must be the death of practically all the chest- 

 nut trees in the infected area, unless some exceedingly active enemy 

 speedily appears ; which is extremely unlikely. Dry summers 

 and otherwise unfavorable conditions may delay the progress of 

 the disease a few years, but not very long. After the disease has 



healthy trees, grown from the seed, may be planted with some 

 chance of success, especially if carefully cultivated and guarded 

 against attacks by aphis and wounds of every description. In 

 nearly all the new infections examined I have noticed a dead 



