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Dutch Elm Disease



I can appreciate your sensitivity.  It may ease your mind a bit to know that
the word "Dutch" is descriptive of the type of elm, not the type of disease.
In other words, the disease killed beautiful trees known as "Dutch Elms"
throughout North America.

Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, MIT/LIT)
Newport News Waterworks
Newport News, VA


WRONG!!

The trees are American Elms (Ulmus Americana)!  The Dutch Elm beetle infested trees in the northeast around the turn of the century and slowly spread west.  Detroit's trademark by the middle of the 20th Century was its elm trees, but by 1970 most were gone.  A recent article in one of the Detroit newspapers said the world's largest American Elm, which sits on a farm near Traverse City, has become a victim.

Ken Hafeli
Westland, MI

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