Show the chestnut blight this began its first noticeable ages about five years ago in long island and new york city there are now standing in forest park in brooklyn more than 16 dead 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 jer sey pennsylvania maryland and to a less extent even massachusetts have suffered from the invasion of this deadly fungus in this instance it if not an insect that causes the trouble but a disease that appears to be con fined to this particular species science seems helpless before its ages the spores from the canker are formed in the fall and disseminated in the spring by billions wherever there Is a crack in the bark they find hodg ment and sap the vital forces of the tree |