https://www.scottarboretum.org/american-chestnut-the-life-death-and-rebirth-of-a-perfect-tree/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:46:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.scottarboretum.org/american-chestnut-the-life-death-and-rebirth-of-a-perfect-tree/#comment-317 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:58:28 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=811#comment-317 Always fascinated by the history of the American chestnut tree, since my Girl Scout day camp group, at land adjacent to Thoreau’s Lake Walden, Concord, MA, in 1959, tried to identify a tall bush with large ovoid leaves. The local forester told us that it was a juvenile chestnut tree, still trying to survive the blight. In 1974, when studying Ecology with John Lyon, at Lowell State College (now University of Massachusetts, Lowell), we learned that the deadly blight was spead by vectors carried by winds, above a usual height of 15 feet. Am looking forward to obtaining this book.

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