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Title: The chestnut blight disease (microform) : means of identification, remedies suggested and need of co-operation to control and eradicate the blight
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Commission for the Investigation and Control of the Chestnut Tree Blight Disease in Pennsylvania
Subjects: Chestnut blight
Publisher: Harrisburg : C. E. Aughinnbaugh
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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a-sionally tlie first year a burr or two will mature. Now the grove is beginning to look cleaner. These trees aretwo or three years old. This was taken in the summer time, inJune, before the trees had blossomed. This is a young tree twoyears from the time the graft was set, really the third summerfor it; a typical tree. It is now making independent roots foritself and in a little while it Avill be free from the old stump.Many of the old stumps are still standing. Some of them haverotted aAvay. Another portion of tlie grove, just a little later, sliowing treesone, two, and three years old, and the tops of a few trees thatwere grafted in the top. Til is view shoAvs tAvo trees by the roadside, one (wo years old;Hie odicr in the third season of its groAvlh. Notice the shape.They Avere cut Ioav, so as to secure this Ioav eroAvii, wliich makesit convenient in harvesting the nuts. It keeps the trees Ioaa.It is like it is Avith a peach tree; the shape is much tlie same asthat of a peach tree.
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Group of Paragon chestnut trees, two, four ami six years olil. 91 This is a view of an ideal tree, tliree years old, with a lowcrown, two feet from the ground. In this view, the huckleberries are beginning to grow nnder-neatlh; all through the grove the huckleberries have filled prac-tically everything. The ground has been burned over, to burnup the leaves and the burrs, which contain the enemies, and thehuckleberries and chestnut sprouts are coming up; but it is nec-essary to keep these down. This view shows how that same ground was cleared, andhow it appeared in the winter time. Everything that couldbe removed was grubbed olf and burned, the screens which yousaw before being used. This is a young tree, three years old, in the third summer.From that tree three hundred burrs were removed. Tavo hun-dred were left to mature. This was too many, and many ofthem dropped off. The leaves were picked from that same tree,and this view shows it with over a hundred burrs in which thenuts are pra

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