Use of Augustine Ascending Elm for close row 
planting on Unity Farm. Are 12 years old, 30 feet 
tall and 7 inches in trunk diameter. 
“Many thanks... . 1 feel that your 
organization has done a wonderful piece 
of work in developing this Elm.” 
TREE PLAGUE AND PONDERING ON 
WOES ERO EL 
ECOLOGY 
August P. Beilmann of the Arboretum of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden very recently stepped 
back and took a detached and sober view of 
America and her trees (Arborist’s News, October, 
1952). He believes that there is no static ecolog- 
ical balance ever achieved in nature but that this 
balance is dynamic, always changing. ‘He applies 
this principle to American shade trees. He finds 
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