That is rather bad.

Mr. Littlepage: I don't know. I have some over on the other side of the
hill and I don't know whether the killing was greater on the other side
or not.

Mr. Reed: We have before us a view of the original Rochester and its
originator, Mr. E. A. Reihl, of Alton, Ill. Over in the Court House we
have on exhibition nuts of that variety which most of you have seen. You
are aware, probably, that it is a native chestnut. It is one of the
largest and best of the native chestnuts and originated in southern
Illinois, where so far the blight has not spread. It gives considerable
promise for the future. We come back now to Lancaster county to a
chinkapin tree, a hybrid chinkapin. The original tree stands in a forest
in this county, and as you notice there, it is a very good sized tree.
You might think from the looks of the photograph that that is a
chestnut, but the nuts are small and borne in racemes, so they are
typical chinkapins.

Mr. Lake: One parent was a chestnut?

Mr. Rush: We don't know; it's a native tree; it's a hybrid.

Mr. Lake: It's a supposed hybrid.

Mr. Reed: Yes, the chestnut and chinkapin grow close together.

The Chairman: What is the form of the nuts?

Mr. Rush: Round like a chinkapin. I think it was a chestnut on a
chinkapin.

Mr. Lake: If it is a chinkapin, what is there to indicate that there is
any chestnut blood in it?

Mr. Rush: The size of the tree and the fact that the nut matures with
the chestnut. The chinkapin is about three weeks earlier than this
variety of chinkapin.

Mr. Reed: That photograph is typical of the Rush hybrid chinkapin. We
take up the butternut now. So far as we know, there are no named
varieties of the butternut; there cannot be until some good individual
tree is found which is of sufficient merit to entitle it to propagation
by budding and grafting. It is one of the best known nuts in our field,
especially in New England; it is more common there than it is further
south.

This slide shows the native butternut in the forests of southern Indiana
near the Ohio River. Of course, those trees in forests like that don't
mature many nuts. It is not in the forests, ordinarily, that you will
find individual trees of sufficient merit to entitle them to
propagation. It is the tree in the open that has had greater
opportunities than are afforded in the forest.

Mr. Lake: Are there any coniferous trees in that forest?

Mr. Littlepage: No, that's an alluvial