blight, and
that we don't recommend their planting. I think if nurserymen all
followed that principle everybody would buy with their eyes open.

THE PRESIDENT: I am sorry you are so lonely in the business. (Laughter.)

MR. LITTLEPAGE: As regards the possibility, or the impossibility, of
doing any good to the chestnut industry by quarantining it, I fully
agree with Dr. Kellerman. I think any attempt of the Board to
quarantine, so far as benefit to the prospective chestnut grower is
concerned, is perfectly useless.

DR. ROBERT T. MORRIS: It seems to me it may be resolved into a very
simple proposition. Now, chestnuts may be raised in orchard form if we
spray with Bordeaux mixture, and cut out blight when it appears. I do
it. They live. Those that are not sprayed die, unless given tiresome
attention. That settles that question for my part. Chestnuts may not be
raised in forest form because it does not pay to spray and cut to that
extent. But chestnuts may be raised profitably in orchard form by people
who are willing to take the trouble to spray them, and to cut out blight
early. It seems to me that people should be properly warned that they
may plant chestnuts in orchard form provided they are willing to look
after them, otherwise we ought to guard against the public buying
chestnut trees, unwarned.

MR. LITTLEPAGE: Dr. Morris, were you in when Mr. Hunt made his
statement?

DR. MORRIS: I got in late.

MR. HUNT: I sprayed fifteen times, every two or three days during the
blossoming season.

DR. MORRIS: I used arsenate of lead with my Bordeaux mixture for the
reason that it is convenient. That makes it stick ever so much tighter.
Now, that may be a feature of my confidence. Three or four heavy storms
will not wash off my Bordeaux mixed, applied in that way, with arsenate
of lead.

MR. HUNT: Well, my trees are dying right along.

DR. MORRIS: I am right in the midst of the worst chestnut blight
conditions. The only kinds I have that are not blighted are sprayed
trees, and chestnuts of kind that resist the blight. I had twenty-six
kinds from different parts of the world to test out in the blight
question. One kind from Manchuria is very blight-resistant. I find that
our American chinquapin, both our eastern form and the western tree form
are both blight-resistant. Also the alder-leaf chestnut. That is my
experience. Those four chestnuts are practically immune, and on my
property American chestnuts dying all around