. Chestnut blight. Chestnut blight; Chestnut. 207 Mr. Levison reports all the chestnut trees of Forest Park, Brooklyn, to be either dead or dying, and many in Prospect Park to be seriously affected. Wherever he has found the chest- nut tree in Brooklyn, he has found the disease. The natural result must be the death of practically all the chest- nut trees in the infected area, unless some exceedingly active enemy speedily appears ; which is extremely unlikely. Dry summers and otherwise unfavorable conditions may delay the progress of the disease a few years, but not very long. After the disease
. Chestnut blight. Chestnut blight; Chestnut. 207 Mr. Levison reports all the chestnut trees of Forest Park, Brooklyn, to be either dead or dying, and many in Prospect Park to be seriously affected. Wherever he has found the chest- nut tree in Brooklyn, he has found the disease. The natural result must be the death of practically all the chest- nut trees in the infected area, unless some exceedingly active enemy speedily appears ; which is extremely unlikely. Dry summers and otherwise unfavorable conditions may delay the progress of the disease a few years, but not very long. After the disease has run its course and the dead trees have been cleared away, young healthy trees, grown from the seed, may be planted with some chance of success, especially if carefully cultivated and guarded against attacks by aphis and wounds of every description. In nearly all the new infections examined I have noticed a dead. Fig. 28. Inoculation experiments with young chestnut trees. Tree on the right killed to the base of the trunk by a body infection ; tree on the left reserved as a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original 1906-1960
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