REPRINTED FROM: 
51* Annual Report 
OF THE 
Northern Nut Growers Association 
Incorporated ' 
AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Annual Meeting at 
University of Tennessee 
Knoxville, Tennessee 
August 14th to 17th, 1960 
The Present Status of Screening the American Chestnut 
for Blight Resistance 
Jessz D. Ditier, Plant Pathologist, Northeastern Forest Experiment 
Station, Forest Service, U. S. Dept. Agriculture, Laurel, Md. 
Will chestnut blight, introduced into this country over 60 years ago, 
wipe out the last remnants of our once prolific American chestnut 
forests? Will a few scattered trees continue to escape infection, merely 
because they are not exposed to the disease under the right circum- 
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