Five year Augustine Ascending Elms in Baltimore. 
Pole 1s 14 feet tall. 
These claims are substantiated by the good reports 
received by the Association from not only pro- 
fessional sources but by the individual owners of 
this healthy new Elm. 
Possibly, then, the so-called elm plagues of 
recent years are a result of NATURE'S trying to 
achieve a new ecological balance and that this 
new balance will be achieved when new strains 
of trees are evolved which grow well on both 
high and low water-table ground. The Augustine 
Ascending Elm, the Association believes, is such 
a new strain. It is a new strain of the old bottom- 
land American Elm (ét was established as a tetra- 
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