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twigs of still other varieties are supposed to possess the virtue of 

 acting as divining rods. Truly I know many things about the 

 genus Ulmus ; but my elm tree is not of that ilk. It may be of the 

 earth, but it is not earthly. As it was in my youth, so is it still, so 

 may it ever be, of another world than ours. Peace be with you, 

 O my elm tree! The years are many since I sat beneath your 

 sheltering branches, yet my love for you has never waned. I close 

 my eyes and I am with you, old friend, once more. The memory of 

 what hath been can never pass away. 



Photo by Verne Morton. 



A Bracket Fungus 



Boy Scouts to Combat Shelf Fungi 



We love the trees and we are very interested in and friendly to 

 the shelf-fungi that we find growing on old decayed stumps and 

 logs. But when we see a shelf-fungus growing on the side of a 

 living tree we feel the same sympathy and pity that we experience 

 in looking at a cancerous growth on a human face. The spores of 

 these injurious fungi find access to the living tree through an 



