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Show The Chestnut Blight. This began Its first noticeable ravages rav-ages about five years ago iu Long Island and New York city. There are now standing In Forest Park In llrooklyn more than 16.000 dead chestnut chest-nut trees and the malady Is traveling fast over the Island. In New York city there are very few live chestnut trees left, and Connecticut, New Jersey, Jer-sey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and to a less extent even Massachusetts, have suffered from the Invasion of this deadly fungus, in this Instance It It not an Insect that causes the trouble hut a disease that appears to be con fined to this particular species Science seems helpless before Its rav ages. The spores from the canker ard formed In the fall and disseminated In tho spring by billions, wherever there Is a crack In the bark they find lodgment lodg-ment and sap the vital forces of the trie. |