Show the foe of the chestnuts Chet nuts enemy has wrought havoc have with the beautiful chestnut forests on the french slopes of the pyrenees Pyre nees during tho the last 25 years yeara it la Is a kind of 0 mushroom which seems beema to poison the trees treba three years suffice to reduce du a beautiful tree to a hollow branchless broken stump the contagion first sip appeared eared in the lower Pyre rees in 1883 4 and it has since progressively invaded the central neen where whole forests of 0 chestnuts have been destroyed the th only effective remedy thus far discovered is ie liquid of carbon applied to the roots of the trees but the alie cost coit Is almost prohibitively high |