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?