Word: elm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have heard a great deal recently in Cambridge and Boston to the effect that the elms in the Harvard Yard were being killed by the elm borer and that in five years the trees would all be dead. Two reasons are assigned for this: first, that the persons in charge can not come to an agreement as to how the trees should be treated, and second, lack of funds. It seems to me that if those in charge can not agree it would be well for them to submit the matter to some recognized authority on the subject...
...tragedy of the Yard elms is too well known to most of us, but our attention is again called to the trees by a defence of the care taken to preserve them printed in another column. The trees have been sprayed with arsenate of lead for several seasons to protect them from the ravages of the brown-tail and gypsy moths and from the elm beetle, but the presence of the leopard moth was not discovered until last summer. A firm of practical foresters, the head of the Boston park department, and several eminent entomologists were immediately consulted...