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inferior in flavor to the European varieties, such as Paragon, 
the Japanese is already grown on a large scale as a nut-pro- 
ducing tree. There are, however, many trade varieties of 
dubious origin. Some of these may prove later to be subject 
to the disease.” 
So far as the writer has observed in Connecticut, the 
Japanese varieties seem to have more or less resistance to the 
disease, but our experience has not been very extended. We 
have seen two cases, one in a nursery and another in a private 
yard, where the Japanese species was directly attacked by the 
blight, but have examined it in nurseries several times with- 
out finding any sign of the disease. We also failed to produce 
the disease in a Japanese variety in the Station yard, although 
the bark was inoculated in sixteen different places. 
In April, 1910, with the aid of the State Forester, we had 
set on the hillside, beside a badly diseased patch of chestnut 
timber on the Whittemore estate in Middlebury, six young 
trees each of the following varieties: Paragon, Reliance, Early 
Bon, Japan Mammoth, Late Tamba and Alpha, mostly Japanese 
varieties. These were planted to see if any would escape the 
blight. Unfortunately, many of them were killed back to the 
ground the first summer by drought. On the stems of some 
there appeared on the exposed southern side sun-scald cankers 
similar to those described by Powell, but no sign of the blight 
fungus showed that year. Since then a number of the trees 
have died from drought, but none have been killed or seriously 
injured by the blight fungus, though in r1o11 a little of the 
fungus was found on two of the-badly injured Japanese Mam- 
moth, and in 1912 on two of the languishing Paragon trees 
cankers had started. The Paragon, of all the varieties, stood 
the transplanting and drought conditions the best. 
Some years ago, through the work of the late Judge Coe 
of Meriden, Mr. Hale of Glastonbury, and Dr. Britton of this 
Station, considerable interest was aroused in the cultivation of 
chestnuts, especially the large fruiting varieties. While we 
know of no cultivated orchards that -were set out, a number 
of men grafted these varieties onto the native sprouts and 
trees. Among these were W. O. Corning of Marbledale, and 
Mr. John Dickerman of Mount Carmel. Both these gentle- 
men say their grafted trees have been badly injured by the 
