CHESTNUT BARK DISEASE. 371 
In New Jersey the chestnuts of the whole state have suffered. 
In Pennsylvania the trouble is serious in the eastern half, and 
quite bad in the southeastern part. The disease occurs gen- 
erally in Delaware, but is especially bad im the northern counties, 
where the chestnuts are most abundant. Maryland and Rhode 
Island have the disease scattered, and serious in certain localities. 
In Virginia and West Virginia the infections are apparently 
few and inconspicuous. 
In Connecticut. The first specimens from Connecticut were 
sent to the Experiment Station in November, 1907, by F. V. 
Stevens, Jr., of Stamford, who found the disease doing con- 
siderable damage in this region during the summer. He also 
mentioned that he thought he had seen it in one or two other 
towns in the state. Since that report others have stated to 
us that they had seen the disease earlier, but had not known 
its nature at the time. For example, Mr. G. H. Hollister, of 
Keney Park, Hartford, said that in the summer of 1905 he 
found a tree on the Edgewood Park estate at Greenwich that 
he is now sure had the blight. Forester Spring reported that 
a farmer in the town of Easton noticed the disease as early 
as 1905. These three towns are all in Fairfield County, near 
the first reported outbreak in New York. 
Hodson (28) reported the blight in New London County 
as early as 1908. Mr. N. J. Peck brought us a specimen from 
Woodbridge, New Haven County, in the winter of 1909, and 
reported that he had seen it in his woods for four or five 
years. The first fruiting specimen collected by the writer 
‘outside of Stamford was found at Morris Cove, New Haven 
County, in September, 1908, though immature specimens were 
seen that spring in Westville. 
By the end of 1908 the disease had been reported in all but 
one of the twenty-three towns of Fairfield County, in eight 
towns of New Haven County; and in one town of New London 
County. By March, 1911, the writer (7, p. 716) had reports 
of it in all of the twenty-three towns of Fairfield County, 
twenty-one in New Haven, fourteen in Litchfield, seven in Hart- 
ford, two in Middlesex, three in Tolland, and one each in 
Windham and New London counties. Out of these seventy- 
two towns all but seven were west of the Connecticut River. 
In November, 1911 (11), it was reported in 121 towns of the 
