the plants better light conditions without causing an
abrupt change in the microclimate of the forest floor--a method
developed by Dr. J. D. Diller of the Division of Forest Pathology (1).
Ten plantations at 9 locations have been established since 1947. These
are listed below:

No. of Plots Location Year Established
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1 Edward Childs Estate, Norfolk, Conn. 1947
1 Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, Tenn. 1947
1 Table Rock State Park, Pickens, S.C. 1948
1 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio 1948
1 Upper Perkiomen Valley Park, Green Lane, Pa. 1949
1 So. Ill. Univ. Fish & Wildlife Service, Cartersville, Ill. 1949
1 Russ State Forest, Decatur, Mich. 1951
2 Nathan Hale State Forest, Coventry, Conn. 1951
1 Ouichata Nat'l. Forest, Hot Springs, Ark. 1952
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Connecticut State Ownership of Sleeping Giant Plantations

On April 11, 1951, at a meeting at the "Little Red House", Sleeping
Giant Mountain, the lands on the Sleeping Giant Mountain, Hamden,
Connecticut, about 10 acres, on which about 1500 chestnut trees are now
growing, including nearly every chestnut species known to science, and
many valuable, blight resistant hybrids, were formally deeded over to
the State of Connecticut by their owner, the senior writer of this
report. The meeting was attended by officials of the Sleeping Giant Park
Association, the Connecticut State Park and Forest Commission, The
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, and the Yale School of
Forestry. The transfer to the State was made with the understanding that
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station would continue the
chestnut breeding work. The whole region is now undergoing a fairly
rapid housing development, and in the ordinary course of mortal events
this plantation would have been divided into building lots within the
next few decades. The State ownership will obviate this, and The
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station sponsorship will assure a
continuation of the breeding work.

Literature Cited

1. Diller, J. D. Growing chestnuts for timber. 37th Ann. Rept. of
Northern