"Jonathan" wrote

Janet Tweedy wrote:
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.


Yes but some of us remember when elms were just about the biggest trees
around.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK