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...City Arborist Jack R. Kelly said the city agreed to the replacement because the original trees had already seriously damaged by the construction...
...approach involves two steps: spraying dormant elms in early spring with a pesticide called methoxychlor, which is lethal to the beetle but harmless to most other insects, and then spraying again in June with a chemical called Benlate, which attacks only the fungus. Instead of spraying, the arborist may also inject Benlate directly into the tree trunk, which puts the fungicide into the elm's circulatory system. After testing the treatment on 600 elms in a Milwaukee suburb for two years, University of Wisconsin researchers report that the mortality rate for the trees has dropped from 5% per year...
Swain, 46, who had been employed as an arborist for less than a week, plunged to the ground from the first branch of an elm facing University Hall. He suffered brain lacerations and two fractures in the left...
Last week he took matters into his own hands. While planting some locust trees in his garden he discussed the cannon with a tree surgeon, one Sidney Stearns. Ralph Coghlan said he was "very serious" about wanting those cannon on the scrap pile. Upshot: Arborist Stearns agreed to get a friend and remove the cannon; Editor Coghlan agreed to pay the expenses. Further upshot: when Stearns and. friend tried to uproot the cannon they were arrested. The case was suddenly complicated when police found a loaded revolver, a full can of gasoline and a sixth tire in Stearns...
Despite storms and other annoying little devices, Lowell House swears that Bunny Berigan and band are going to be at their dance tonight. Latest reports had Chairman Ash Campbell moaning about some spruce trees which had to be skied up to the dining hall, he having blithely persuaded the arborist to "deliver" them on Thursday, instead of Wednesday afternoon; but he promises that all will be snug and cozy, with Mr. Berigan pledged to soft and danceable tempos...