Billions of American chestnut trees were wiped out by a fungus. Now, scientists are working to restore the tree to its former glory.

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; So begins H. D. Longfellow's poem 'The Village Blacksmith' one oft-remembered by people of a certain age in the UK as a poem they've learnt in school. While the poem is more about impressing the fact that "at the flaming forge of life/ Our fortunes must be wrought;", for me it ends at the first line itself. For when one begins to contemplate the spreading chestnut-tree neither fortunes nor the flaming forges of life manage to get a…

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Great forests of American chestnut trees died from chestnut blight, but their cousins across the seas, European chestnuts, continue to thrive. Beautiful shade trees in their own right, they produce most of the chestnuts Americans eat today. Learn more about them here.

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I spent a pleasant couple of hours walking through the ancient monastic city founded by St. Kevin in the 6th century. Glendalough is to Ireland what Iona is to Scotland, a place of deep spiritual richness and pilgrimage. This is the gateway to the monastic enclosure. It is a totally unique example of a double threshold. It would have had a second story that probably housed the gatekeeper. Just inside the second arch is large cross incised in the stone wall. Those seeking sanctuary would lay…

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These trees look beautiful and are practically found in most forests. All types of chestnut trees can also fulfill wildlife & human food needs

It has long been thought that sweet chestnut trees were introduced to Britain by the Romans – a belief popularised by 18th-century writers – but new research assessing archaeobotanical samples from this period has now cast doubt on such assumptions.