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Frank Quinn Elm Grove...
Looking to the future, Hadzi hopes to get back to work on small things, although a friend has just given him a 12-foot elm...
...painter par excellence. It is a wealthy and confident artist who stands next to his wood-burning stove in his chinos, blue button-down Oxford and knit tie (his work clothes) in the Self-Portrait of 1968. Then there are picnics on the golf course in Lunch Under the Elm Tree, charming portraits of perfectly attired little girls (his daughters), and a relaxing backyard clay court match in dress whites in The Tennis Game of 1972. Even Bruno, the family golden retriever, makes an appearance or two and the scenes of Maine feature the requisite lobster cages and boathouses...
This new little elm is not the first progeny of the Adams elm. Some seedlings have been shipped back to the Adams family in Quincy, Mass., and a few to Lady Bird Johnson in Texas. Four more have been planted in other parts of the White House grounds. Since the old tree has resisted aphids, locusts, Washington's air pollution and even Dutch elm disease, there is great hope that the new trees will inherit its special immunity. One by one the other elms around the White House have succumbed. Eight have died since 1965, and only 31 oldtimers...
Williams believes the old Adams elm has only a few years left, although trees, like humans, fight hard to live on. "We can never be sure," says Williams. "Elms don't like to lose Limbs. They do not heal well." And the giant has now lost half a dozen of its big branches...