The American Chestnut whose generic name, Castanea, has been chosen as the name of this Journal, is primarily a tree of the Appalachian region. Its geographic distribution is roughly as follows: “Southern Maine to the Valley of the Winooski River, Vermont, and southern Ontario, along the southern shore of Lake Ontario to southern Michigan, southward to Delaware and southeastern Indiana, and along the Alleghany Mountains to central Alabama and Mississippi, and to central Kentucky and Tennessee; very common on the glacial drift of the northern states and, except at the north, mostly confined to the Appalachian hills; attaining its greatest size in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee”.