CHESTNUT BARK DISEASE. II 
first in the southwestern towns of the state but recent studies of 
the disease prove that it was present to a greater or less degree 
in scattered localities throughout the state as early as in these 
reported towns. 
DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES. 
Chestnut blight is present in Massachusetts along and west of 
the Connecticut River, in Rhode Island it is scattered and seri- 
FIG. VI, A-B: CANKERS ON SMOOTH (A) AND ROUGH (8) BARKED TREES. 
ous in certain localities, and it has also been reported from Ver- 
mont and New Hampshire. In New York it is progressing 
north along the Hudson River and is present in western 
Long Island. In New Jersey the chestnut has suffered over the 
entire state and in Pennsylvania the trouble is serious in the 
eastern and bad in the southeastern part. The disease occurs gen- 
erally in Delaware, while Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia 
have it scatteringly, the points of infection being few and incon- 
spicuous in the latter state. Thus we see that the disease is 
