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Friday, October 16. 2009

Ash Tree Diseases

Either the Emerald Ash Borer, or more likely Ash Yellows, killed a 100 year-old majestic White Ash which provided welcome shade to our place.


The wonderful Ash is under seige from diseases spreading across the country. It's a damn shame, because these shade trees were fairly good substitutes for the old Elms that succumbed to the Dutch Elm disease.


Photo is some sort of Ash, but I'm pretty sure it's not our Eastern White Ash from its shape.

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation, Our Essays at 15:29 | Comments (2) | Trackback (1)

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Tree du jour: White Ash
We posted on the sad story of the Ash Tree diseases recently, but I didn't have a good photo of a White Ash, the fine northern hardwood and pleasant shade tree from which the Louisville Slugger happens to be made. I took a photo of one - a young one
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Sorry to hear about your tree.

The disease resistant Elms are widely available now and Chestnuts are supposedly coming soon.
#1 NJSoldier on 2009-10-16 18:31 (Reply)
Off topic but a this just in>>


BREAKING NEWS: This just in!!! Obama wins the Heisman Trophy after
watching a college football game!!!
#2 RL on 2009-10-17 02:48 (Reply)
I do not see recent posts on the EAB and the white ash.

We were talking here, in Maryland, about planting one as a memorial to a man who was pure of heart.

The propects look bleak with this nasty little borer that I understand arrived in MD. within an illlegal tree shipment from Michigan. Uh Hum.....

What do you folks think? Survival without yearly treatment?

How is it that I find myself landing on, Maggies Farm, frequently within the past year?
#3 James Wilson on 2010-03-21 17:19 (Reply)

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