Blight is the disease attacking the chestnut tree with which the public
is most familiar. The Chinese chestnut is strongly resistant although
not immune as few old trees entirely escape attack in areas where blight
is prevalent. In most cases healthy vigorous trees of this species
overcome the disease within a few years after being attacked. The ones
that die are usually those that have been devitalized in some way. The
nuts are subject to attack by any of several diseases either before or
after the harvest. A preliminary report on these has been made by
Gravatt and Fowler.[5]
[Footnote 5: G. F. Gravatt and Marvin Fowler. Nor. Nut Growers Ass'n.
Proc. 31: 110-113. 1940.]