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Definition of Chestnut canker
1. Noun. A disease of American chestnut trees.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chestnut Canker
Literary usage of Chestnut canker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conference Called by the Governor of Pennsylvania to Consider Ways and by Raymond Allen Pearson (1912)
"Although the chestnut canker has been known and experimented with since 1905,
... The published account of the extermination of the chestnut canker in the ..."
2. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"Spore-horns of chestnut canker fungus 145 20. Perithecial stage of chestnut canker
fungus .... 146 21. Leaf-spot of elm (by HM Fitzpatrick) 152 22. ..."
3. A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems by George William Hunter (1914)
"The chestnut canker is a dangerous parasite. ... Chestnut trees in a New York
City park: killed by a parasite, the chestnut canker. ..."
4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1920)
"... trees (making 3.6 per cent, of the total) is only about half the number that
would have been found before the chestnut canker wrought havoc among them. ..."
5. Manual Training Magazine (1911)
"... that are either dead or rapidly dying on account of the spread of the chestnut
canker that is threatening to exterminate this popular American tree. ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1912)
"... in his paper presented at this conference, did say: The speaker has recently
collected and examined a fungus indistinguishable from the chestnut canker ..."
7. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1915)
"Sweet chestnut canker.—Young sweet chestnut-trees, also the shoots that spring
from stumps of trees that have been cut down, often suffer from a disease ..."
8. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1913)
"Sweet chestnut canker.—Young sweet chestnut-trees, also the shoots that spring
from stumps of trees that have been cut down, often suffer from a disease ..."
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