Identifier: chestnutblightdi00comm (find matches)
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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ted with this disease, and are supposedto be more or less characteristic of the disease, but the sproutscan be produced by other means than as a result of the disease. No. 25. Another tree, also on Long Island, in which all buttwo of the lower limbs on the left hand side have been killed bygirdling from the disease, and now we have remaining only thosetwo, or perhaps tliree, lower left hand limbs. No. 26. This is a tree showing the sprout growth which Ialluded to in one of the last pictures, to even better advantage.Notice .the sprouts which come up around the base, and thesprouts which come from the trunk at various places uji in tliecrown. No. 27. There you have another type of the same thing, a morepronounced example, in which the sprouts are con lined almostentirely to the trunk of the tree and everything is dead or dying,except perhaps one or two branches. No. 28. This view is shown in order to call to your attentionthis particular tree (indicating), which shows four good lesions
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No. IG. A ireeu-hmise chestnut tree in pot, three months after artitieial iuocuhitionwith summer spores. PhGiv(jtap1i hij Bicucr.

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