Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-08-08 | Page 1 | Beetles and Fungus Kill Many Trees

BEETLES AND FUNGUS KILL HILL MANY TREES TREES' t NEW YORK Aug 8 A A great plague of elm leaf lear be beetles tes has swept over this section of or the country this summer ac according according ac- ac cording to Director Murrill of or tho the Bronx botanical gardens Mr Murrill recent made macis a trip of or investigation through four tour states and MYS that ho found tho the condition conditions con con- of or the tile elm clin trees everywhere re Warming Tho The bee beetle tic however ocr is not the only enemy to the tho trees wh which ch it Is working Mr Murrill was called last Jast week to Sagamore Sag Sag- Sagamore amore Ilmore Hill where he made an on lion tion of ot the tho chestnut trees which ar are aM Colonel Roosevelt's pride When Colonel Roosevelt returned from Africa he ho sent word wo-d to the tho Bronx botanical gardens that something was wrong with his trees arid and asked nuked that an expert rt he sent to Inspect ct them Mr Ir nh Murrill discovered that almost every o tree treo on the tho colonels colonel's estate was WOM dead Tho The rapid growing fungus had started beneath the bark of ot tb tho trees and after killing tho the trees tree had spread completely over them thorn It progressed with surprising swiftness and within two months months' caused thousands of or dollars dollars' worth of ot damage