Show Fighting the Tree Blight Might That Tha t Costs Us a ar Year r science discovers a remedy and It 1 Is UNLESS quickly applied the plague that has bas attacked nearly ovary every chestnut forest lorest and grove brove in fu ho the Eastern States from Maryland to Maine Malue will soon cause that beautiful and useful tree to become only a memory The germ of this disease dis dl dlease ease has hu been disc discovered r. r but not Its Us antiserum Benim or any successful rul means of or V pr preventing its sere spread d. d b ti ii The medium of or infection on f d is the minute gelatinous f V. V r has spore such euch of ot extraordinary a fungus which vitality vitality vi r i h that it even adheres ad Mf r her heres es to and destroys I f chestnut fence rails raUs z 4 J t x These sticky little seeds uK of oC the death dealing death dealing fungus fun J gus a are peculiarly adapted adapt t ted ed to bo be carried from r rone one tree to another on the feet of or insects squirrels squire z rely reI and birds birds and and th thus l the infection has spread G in the last few years to E nearly every chestnut rf J r forest and grove east cast of the Allegheny It has hu ruined d the he be beauty uty of f. f For For- near est Park nS the on Brooklyn Long Island Illand Bo Bor Bor- Bor M Map P of the region ion mOlt mol affected ff by the c tree blight found tules tule closely the clustered are ough line having already destroyed OOOO trees of ot which were chestnuts Aa As yet exemption from this blight Is le something that money cannot buy forests buy forests on great private estates es es- tates utes In spite ot of all aU efforts suffer Buffor as greatly as do the tho for groves of small mall farmers Nearly all tho the s t M t x i if 1 chestnut trees in fu Bronx Park are arc gone gon Probably the fine chestnut forests of Southeastern Pennsylvania and Central Contral New l' Jersey show the tho worst wort ravages of this disease The situation is so serf i that Governor Tenor of o Pennsylvania has Issued a call for a convention to tobe tobe be held In the State Capt Cap Cap- t t. t itol at Harrisburg on tip February 20 30 O and 21 31 l of this year to consider the Z important problem of oC say save saving ing lug bat shat healthy chestnut chest chest- 1 nut trees remain A forest attacked by this fungus growth Is a f s-ra s o melancholy sight The Th chestnuts mortally strick strick- stricken o a Y en or already alread dead stand standout standout out ghastly white among a their theil living companions Close Inspection leaves no doubt about the cause a 5 The exterior appearances appear 0 c ances of or this fungus first T is is' numerous yellow pusS pustules pustules pus pus- S r tules rules on the sm smooth oth bark barko q r o of the tree Inthe In tho deep C 5 x 3 cr cracks of or tb the oldest bark 0 It takes the form of ot yellow yel yel- r low or orange lines Later the coor color turns to a much K r deeper yellow and finally b brown r o 0 w vv n of deepening lades Within th the pus pus- With the are arc the tho elongated sacs or asci containing the spores always eight In number It is estimated that this tree blight during tro years has cost In whole forests destroyed the tho remedy It must soon Boon be found or tha chestnuts chestnut's career In this country is ended c. c r t |