os Blight-Resistant Chestnuts and Related Tree Crops 
Van Fleet, and the o 
garden. This tree is 
riginal tree is growing at the Bell (Md. 
more than 10 years old and for the past five 
—Hybri t (about two-thirds natural size). A cross between the 
Mae bone Seeks aa one of our native chinquapins. The tree yields fine 
nuts, bears abundantly every year, and has shown marked blight resistance. 
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ears has borne heavily each year. The nuts are about double the 
ae of our native chestnuts and are sweet and palatable. The tree 
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