[Magdalen] Nature goes tee hee

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

This thread is gone to hades in a handbasket, so....

I read somewhere that they have come up with a strain of chestnut that is
resistant to the chestnut blight.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 11/20/2014 4:50:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> ichthys89 at comcast.net writes:
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> David  (and me, reading) were just reminiscing about Elms, thass all...
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> I had  two giant ones in the yard where I grew up.
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> It was curious when I went  to Amsterdam/The Netherlands in the 1990s,
> there
> were very large Elms all  over the place... I think Dr. David has discussed
> this already too, but  I've forgot.
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> Lynn>>>>>
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> I don't have any foolproof answer to this observation.  There are  small
> pockets of unaffected trees here and there in the previous ranges of
> both the American and the European elms.  There have also been  some
> hybridized elms that are supposed to be resistant to Dutch Elm  Disease.
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> I did observe that the British Isles, which had been spared the  earlier
> destruction
> seen on the continent of Europe, lost its elms in the 1970's about the
> same
> time as the disease was rampant in the Upper Midwest USA.
>
> We see these man made epidemics one after another - Dutch Elm  Disease,
> Chestnut Blight, Wooly adelgid (hemlocks), Emerald Ash Borer, White  Pine
> Blister Rust - and wonder where it will all end.
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> David Strang.
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