In article , "J. Lane"
wrote:

Hey Murphy, Didn't catch your post till today, Aug. 6. What part of this
blackened and smoking province do you live in? Glad to hear you don't need
need the chain saw!


......i'm in abbotsford....it might be smoking today, but its only
pollution...G...where are you?.... and hope you are OK...

....i have also found a forum with UBC Botanical gardens and have had
several replies to the tree problem....none of them sound very promising
as far as a cure...so now i am in denial and not cutting anything down
this year regardless.....sigh....the joys of gardening....

murphy