[Magdalen] Tree coffee table book!

[Grace Cangialosi]

David, try the burlap traps around your trees. The caterpillars can't climb past them, and you can remove the ones that get trapped in the burlap. Cheap and easy and pretty effective.

> On Jun 20, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 6/20/2015 11:31:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> houstonklr at gmail.com writes:
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> David S  - reading a review of a book this morning- The Glory of the 
> Tree:An  Illustrated History-
> 
> Sounds fascinating and I immediately thought of  you. 
> Lynn >>>>>>
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> 
> Thank you, and pray for our poor oaks being ravaged again
> (after an hiatus of 25 years) by the Gypsy Moth.  There is  usually
> about a ten per cent mortality from these infestations.  I hope  my
> two prize double Northern Red Oaks (Q. rubra)  make it through
> all right.
> 
> There were plans for extensive spraying county-wide this year,
> because they knew in advance this was coming, but the plans were
> lost in bureaucratic red tape.
> 
> I checked with the development authorities here to ascertain whether
> we might do some private spraying.  They informed me that their  legal
> consultants had advised them that we would need to have the signature
> of all 1,000 property owners agreeing to this.  Of course, this  would
> never happen.  So there you have it.
> 
> 
> David Strang.