Word: trunk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college elm which for over a hundred years has stood, in the quadrangle between Harvard Hall, Hollis Hall, and Holden Chapel will not be entirely destroyed. For several years the branches have been gradually cut off as the brown tail moths and beetles attacked it until today only the trunk itself remains. This has been scraped and after being well-oiled and painted will have ivy planted about...
...where it feeds and grows as it burrows into the larger limbs. These worms vary in size from three-eighths of an inch to over three inches in length, when they are the most destructive. They then bore across and completely girdle large limbs, and frequently even girdle the trunk, finally cutting a cell close to the bark and there turning into pupas. When these develop they push out through the bark and become moths, which in turn lay their eggs in the bark of the twigs. The elm beetle works in a similar manner, through it does...