Apr. 1, 1927 Natural Replacement of Blight-Killed Chestnut 633 
STUDIES ON PERMANENT SAMPLE PLOTS 
The Connecticut areas were selected for study largely because 
they contained permanent sample plots which were established in 
other studies. Records of some of these plots are available as far 
luction 
The chestnut has been salvaged and the stand, now 
recovered and still contains ample advance reproc 
in southern Connecticut. 
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i ras first dis red in Bronx 
k as 1904, the year that the blight was first discovere 
Park "N Y. In the present studies the plots are identified by pe 
same. numbers used in the other studies. On these Does caraee 
which covered from one-tenth to one-fourth acre, all essential detaus, 
