resistant, there would be a good chance of our finding such trees, if there are 

 any. Dr. Perley Spaulding, Pathologist of the Northeastern Forest Experiment 

 Station at Amherst, Massachusetts, v?ill te glad to receive notes concerning 

 apparently resistant trees. Such trees will be visited and inspected, so far 

 as possible, so that really resistant ones may be watched. This will be done 

 with the idea of finally getting nuts or cuttings from such trees to begin the 

 breeding of even more resistant trees. While such effort to get a resistant 

 timber chestnut may seem visionary, no one can say that it is impossille or 

 even improbatle. The former great value of our chestnut in the forests of the 

 Northeastern States is sufficient justification for our exhausting all possible 

 hopes for replacing it on a forestry basis. You may chance to see such resist- 

 ant trees. Eon't fail to report it as it may be of much greater importance 

 than you believe possille. 



P. S, '7hile not directly mentioned In the above, this letter 

 is a plea not to cut too closely the fev; remaining partly livi.ng 

 chestnut trees. It is obvious that clean cutting^of all such 

 trees will prevent their standing long enough to show real re- 

 sistance to the blight. In cuttings made by you or under jowc 

 direction leave one or two such trees to fight out their battle 

 and reveal to us resistant individuals, if there are any, F, S, 



