Show historic trees threatened for years now I 1 havo have walked back find and forth to my labors under a gothic roof of green for formed medby by tho the interlacing elm branches which since civil war days havo have made my sheet ono one ortho of worlds most beautiful avenues today there are some rude gaps in the raftered cell ing where huge branches havo have been ripped agayby awny by the wind and storm dut now there is it a threat of greater devastation tor for our and other eln elm trees ancient and filid historical or merely beautiful tor for the dreaded dutch clutch elm disease has descended upon Americ two cases of virulent infection havo have been discovered within tho the district of columbia alone and no cure Is known my bly gen generation cration i found nothing exotic in the he idea of tho village ft smithy under tho the spreading chestnut tree tay the would hao ha o a tough job finding a chest chestnut nui tree free under which to build his smithy even it if you could and the smith for thanks banks 1 to the infamous anious chestnut blight V a horse chestnut tree in alls this f auntry colilli ry Is now utmost almost as r rare ro as a horse borse must the unis elms go eo that way I 1 talked this question over with 1 a member of the american for estry products industries inc ina a 1 private industrial association ile he S said A recent house action re ia deuced the federal on for the control and research of the tha E lu ti rodeon beetle and dutch elm dis ease to it if the cut la Is ap i proved by the senate it means the end of the dutch elm disease job labi 1 oratory in morristown N J where the department of agricultures agri cultures bu tf v reau af pf entomology and plant qua anthipe has hag conducted extensive research into the control and possible v prevention of 0 the insect and fungus f an elm according to official i classification Is a prized sha shade A tree aree in the northeastern and central y united states but passing over aj lits its esthetic value consider that its 4 i wood od Is used for variety of pur poses especially slack cooperage t market and bushel baskets for heavy crating and tor for veneers venters ve but what does on an economan lac t ca care re for or all that F consider uio white giouse grounds tor for instance in these quiet 18 acres there are something less than trees comprising some do CO species the two groat great magnolias magl lollis planted close to the rear portico were placed there by andrew jackson nearly every president planned a tree tice there I 1 Is the benjamin harrison oak the harddng beech A the coolidge birch several species set under hoover maples predominate but the elms are next audr and many nany hove have historic memories just southeast of the south portico Is a an elm said old to have been planted by john quincy adams there are others planted by lincoln and mckinley under thise these tries trees history lives but for beauty nothing surpasses the high arched clois ter thick in summer stark but graceful in silhouetted line in winter which roofs my avenue mm a 1 R lk T aa A A wilting and partly defoliated 30 foot american elm severely affected with dutch elm disease |