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certainly will not take the place of the American chestnut. The 
tree is said to attain a height of 50 or 60 feet in Japan. As seen in 
this country it is a handsome tree, dwarfish and compact in habit, 
and rather slow growing. It has hardly had time to show how large 
it can grow. 
The immunity of the Japanese chestnut, together with the fact 
that it was first introduced and cultivated on Long Island and in the 
very locality from which the disease appears to have spread, suggests 
the interesting hypothesis that the disease was introduced from 
Japan. So far, however, no facts have been adduced to substantiate 
this view. 
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