Mr. Littlepage: I haven't yet quite determined the cause of the trouble. Last winter I lost perhaps one-third of the trees with a peculiar condition. The wood under the bark was darkened. I sent some of them to Washington the year before to see if there was any blight or fungus and they reported there was none on any of the trees, but this winter perhaps one-third of the trees died down to the graft. A few, however, would sprout from the scion, giving me, of course, the grafted top again. It seemed to indicate, perhaps, a winter killing and yet I would not undertake to assert that that was the cause, but it was very serious. Prof. Smith: Was the land low or high? Mr. Littlepage: High land along a hillside, very excellent land for chestnuts. Mr. Reed: Sandy loam? Mr. Littlepage: No, it's a hilly clay with a considerable humus and set in clover. The Chairman: Which way does it face? Mr. Littlepage: South. The Chairman: That is rather bad. Mr. Littlepage: I don't know. I have some over on the other side of the hill and I don't know whether the killing was greater on the other side or not. Mr. Reed: We have before us a view of the original Rochester and its originator, Mr. E. A. Reihl, of Alton, Ill. Over in the Court House we have on exhibition nuts of that variety which most of you have seen. You are aware, probably, that it is a native chestnut. It is one of the largest and best of the native chestnuts and originated in southern Illinois, where so far the blight has not spread. It gives considerable promise for the future. We come back now to Lancaster county to a chinkapin tree, a hybrid chinkapin. The original tree stands in a forest in this county, and as you notice there, it is a very good sized tree. You might think from the looks of the photograph that that is a chestnut, but the nuts are small and borne in racemes, so they are typical chinkapins. Mr. Lake: One parent was a chestnut? Mr. Rush: We don't know; it's a native tree; it's a hybrid. Mr. Lake: It's a supposed hybrid. Mr. Reed: Yes, the chestnut and chinkapin grow close together. The Chairman: What is the form of the nuts? Mr. Rush: Round like a chinkapin. I think it was a chestnut on a chinkapin. Mr. Lake: If it is a chinkapin, what is there to indicate that there is any chestnut blood in it? Mr. Rush: The size of the tree and the fact that the nut matures with the chestnut. The chinkapin is about three weeks earlier than this variety of chinkapin. Mr. Reed: That photograph is typical of the Rush hybrid chinkapin. We take up the butternut now. So far as we know, there are no named varieties of the butternut; there cannot be until some good individual tree is found which is of sufficient merit to entitle it to propagation by budding and grafting. It is one of the best known nuts in our field, especially in New England; it is more common there than it is further south.