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Each year more and more American elm trees, which once lined hundreds of town squares, fall victim to Dutch elm disease. Last year the apparently incurable blight destroyed at least half a million trees in the U.S. This summer the pestilence may be worse; it has spread from the East through the South and Midwest and is now attacking trees as far west as Denver...
After every other remedy failed (including such folksy "cures" as injecting trees with turpentine or whacking galvanized nails into their trunks), scientists believe they have found a way to stop the fungus that causes the disease and the elm-bark beetles that spread it. The new 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...
Elizabeth Catlett, black sculptress recently in Mexico City. Prints and sculpture at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, 122 Elm Hill Ave., Dorchester, 12 to 9 weekdays. 12 to 5 Sats., 2 to 5 Suns., until 2 April...
Elizabeth Catlett, black sculptress recently in Mexico City. Prints and sculpture at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, 122 Elm Hill Ave., Dorchester. 12 to 9 weekdays, 12 to 5 Sats., 2 to 5 Suns., until 2 April...
...before the election and bright and sunny in Manchester. The car pulled over to the curb in front of Hartke-for-President headquarters. His center for campaign operations was on the main street, Elm St., but it was at least five blocks away from the center of town and the other candidates' headquarters...