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n with those of Connecticut." The essential fact seems to be that the European or Spanish chestnut is very susceptible to the blight, perhaps as much so as is our native species, but that evidently certain individuals or races exist that are more or less resistant. During the early part of 1947 we had a visit from Professor Cristos Moulopoulos of the University of Salonika, Greece. Although the disease had not then appeared in Greece, the pathologists there would like to be ready for it when it does come. _Pollinations in 1946 and 1947._ Without going into details, the general purpose of the pollinations during these last two years has been to incorporate more and more of the resistant Chinese stock into our hybrids. Beginning in 1937, we crossed our best Japanese-American hybrids with Chinese, and we now have a considerable number of young saplings of flowering age, which have the pedigree: Chinese x Japanese-American. Unfortunately, in this cross the Chinese is usually dominant as regards habit, but not always. We have some tall, straight-growing individuals of this combination which may well be the forerunners of a blight-resistant forest stock for America. Therefore, during 1946 and 1947 we have been crossing these fine Chinese x (Japanese-Americans) with the following: 1. Our best Chinese 2. American-Chinese and Chinese-American 3. American (C. dentata) 4. Our best Japanese-Americans 5. Among themselves For it is the ultimate aim of this work to develop a race of tall, hardy, blight resistant individuals which will breed true and thus of themselves re-establish the chestnut tree in the forests of Eastern North America. As everyone knows, the re-establishment of the chestnut as a forest tree can not be done in a few years or even a score of years, but by continued breeding and patience and perseverance it can be done. The materials are at hand, i.e. tall, erect growth, and blight resistance; and with persistent effort the desired combination can be made. For (1) above we were fortunate in 1946 in receiving a supply of pollen from tall-growing Chinese trees, through the kindness of Mr. Michael Evans of Greenville, Delaware and Professor Maurice A. Blake of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. As a result of our pollinations in 1946, in which 72 combinations were made, we harvested and planted in our cold frames in October 479 hybrid nuts, a large proportion of which germinated,
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