isible infections and
the trees were so blue with spray that you could see them for half a
mile.

The Chairman: But, later on, cracks and squirrel scratches and all sorts
of injuries would allow new spores to be carried in?

Mr. Pierce: Yes, sir.

Mr. Reed: The future of the chestnut depends so largely on the
conquering of this disease that no other horticultural problem of this
nut is, just at present, imperative. So far as we know, all of the
European and American varieties are highly subject to this disease, so
much so that there is no inducement to plant them, and we are waiting
for Dr. Morris and a few other hybridizers to find some hybrids, or
straight Japanese varieties, that are of sufficient merit, and of
sufficient degree of resistance to this disease, for us to have a basis
for building up the future industry. On the tables there are quite a
number of exhibits from Mr. Riehl and Mr. Endicott of Illinois. Most of
them are hybrids between the American and the Japanese species, but, so
far as we know, they have not been tried in communities where the
disease prevails. We don't know whether they are resistant or not, as
they are being grown in a section entirely outside of the area where the
blight exists. I think I am right in that, am I not, Mr. Pierce? Is
there any chestnut blight in southern Illinois?

Mr. Pierce: There has been none reported.

Mr. Reed: I think that the varieties that these men in Indiana have
originated are the most promising we know of. I think that in examining
these specimens you will agree that they are of fairly high quality and
good size, and if they prove to be resistant to the disease much may be
expected from them.

Mr. Hutt: I have not seen the chestnut blight at all. I hope that it
isn't in our section. I have heard it was brought in from some point but
I do not know whether it was identified exactly as the chestnut blight.

Mr. Pierce: I saw a specimen sent from North Carolina and it proved to
be the Collinsville fungus.

Mr. Corsan: If you remember reading Fuller's book on nuts, he reported
that the chestnut blight extended through the Carolinas but said that
chestnuts were still coming from that direction in great abundance. Up
in Canada we haven't the chestnut blight. The chestnut tree runs from
the Ohio River to the Niagara River but it doesn't cross into Michigan,
except along the Michigan Southern and Lake Shore Railroad where some
enterprising gentlemen have pla