On Nov 9, 2:23*pm, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , Martin
writes

" Fifty years after Dutch elm disease wiped out over 25 million trees
in the UK" *So long ago?

I would have said more nearer 1970 that the final ones succumbed
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraphhttp://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

We had elms in our hedges in 1988 that grew back so long as you cut
them to hedge hight, as advised by the Forestry Commission.

Jonathan