American Chestnut T-Shirt
American Chestnut T-Shirt
Size & fit
Comfort Colors 1717. Relaxed fit, true to size; size down for a closer fit.
| Size | Chest width (in) | Length (in) |
|---|---|---|
| S | 18 ¼ | 26 ⅝ |
| M | 20 ¼ | 28 |
| L | 22 | 29 ⅜ |
| XL | 24 | 30 ¾ |
| 2XL | 26 | 31 ⅝ |
| 3XL | 27 ¾ | 32 ½ |
| 4XL | 29 ¾ | 33 ½ |
Measured flat: chest across, 1 in below the armholes; length from the high shoulder. Compare with a T-shirt you own and like.
Each shirt is garment-dyed after it is sewn, so the colour can vary slightly from shirt to shirt.
Drawn eight years before the blight: the split burs, three nuts to a husk, the long toothed leaves.
The shirt
- Comfort Colors 1717: heavyweight 100% ring-spun cotton, garment-dyed and pre-shrunk.
- The full plate on the back; a detail from it on the left chest.
- Wash cold, inside out; tumble dry low. Don't iron over the print.
Shipping & production
Each shirt is printed for you after you order. Most orders are printed and on their way within 2–5 business days; delivery time depends on the shipping method you choose at checkout. Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay.
Returns
If your shirt arrives damaged, misprinted or defective, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every shirt is printed to order, we can't accept returns or exchanges for size or a change of mind, so please check the size chart above before ordering.
Plate 013
From the book
- Species
- Castanea dentata
- As named in the book
- Castanea dentata, Borkh.
- Artist
- C. E. Faxon
- Book
- The Silva of North America, vol. IX, pl. CCCCXLI, 1896
“…one of the most useful and beautiful trees of the forests of eastern North America.”
Then and now
Chestnut blight was found at the Bronx Zoo in 1904. By about 1950 it had killed several billion trees.
Field notes
Drawn in 1896. Eight years later, the blight arrived.
When Faxon drew this branch, the American chestnut was everywhere: up to four billion trees across the eastern United States, a dominant hardwood from Maine to Georgia. Sargent called it "one of the most useful and beautiful trees of the forests of eastern North America."
Eight years later, keepers at the Bronx Zoological Park noticed their chestnuts' bark dying in patches. A New York Botanical Garden mycologist identified a fungus nobody had seen before, which had arrived on imported Asian trees. It moved twenty to fifty miles a year. By about 1950, several billion chestnuts were dead.
The species isn't quite gone. The roots of many trees survive and keep sending up sprouts, which usually die back before they can flower, and researchers have spent decades trying to bring back a tree that can resist the blight. If your grandparents had a barn or a dresser made of chestnut, you've seen what the old forest was made of.
- 1896Faxon draws the chestnut for Sargent's Silva.
- 1904Chestnut blight is found at the Bronx Zoological Park.
- c. 1950Several billion trees are dead across the eastern forest.
- TodayRoot sprouts survive; researchers work to restore a blight-resistant tree.