What Are the Enemies of the Trees? 



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American Forestry Association 

 Insects are destroying the trees of this forest. 



we have made against it, we have not yet been able to 

 exterminate it. 



The chestnut tree, which every Eastern child loves for 

 its nuts, is now being, destroyed by a fungus which may kill 

 every one of these trees in the country. 



The white-pine blister, also brought over from Europe, 

 is now threatening all the white pines and the related trees 

 of our country. This disease has already such a start in 

 the East that we may not be able to stop it. 



The dainty mistletoe, about which there are so many 

 pretty Christmas legends, is a deadly enemy of many trees. 

 The seed of this fungus is carried, by the birds or by the 

 wind, from one tree to another. When it sprouts, tiny 

 roots go down through the bark to the sap, on which it 

 feeds until the tree is killed. 



AU our fruit trees have their deadly enemies which cause 



