Word: chestnut
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...American chestnut tree used to flourish from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, from the Canadian frontier to North Carolina. It often reached a height of 100 feet, a ripe old age of 600 years. Today, where the once verdant chestnut forests stood, are scattered grey skeletons, a few scrubby little second growth trees. For Endothia parasitica, the chestnut fungus imported from Asia at the end of the last century, has systematically destroyed the American chestnut. Only a few stands are left in the Southern Appalachians and Endothia has started on them...
Last week, John A. Casterline of Dover, N. J., a modest, patient man who loves trees, eagerly showed reporters four luxuriant chestnut trees on the New Jersey estate of Success Coach Walter Boughton Pitkin. Then he displayed two more in his own backyard. They had been struck with the blight, he said, but he had saved them with his new tannic acid treatment. Method of treatment is simple: on the theories currently held by tree experts, that: 1) the tannic acid of tree-sap is as actively disease-resistant as human blood; and 2) the circulatory system of a tree...
Died. Equipoise, 10, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's chestnut stallion; of enteritis (inflammation of the bowels); at Lexington, Ky. Second only to Sun Beau among the world's top money winners, Equipoise brought home $338,610 in his six racing years. Sun Beau's earnings...
Christian A. Herter, Jr., -- Miss Elizabeth Robb, Chestnut Hill...
Henry Loomis -- Miss Faith Moffat, Chestnut Hill...