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Dutch elm

Dutch elm or Dutch Elm may refer to:

  • Ulmus × hollandica, natural hybrid between Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra) and Field Elm (Ulmus minor)
    • Ulmus × hollandica 'Major', cultivar of Ulmus × hollandica, introduced to England from the Netherlands
    • Ulmus × hollandica 'Belgica', cultivar of Ulmus × hollandica, most common cultivar in the Netherlands

Usage examples of "dutch elm".

My father was Lamont Cranston, and he met an untimely end via the worst case of Dutch Elm Blight ever diagnosed at Johns Hopkins.

They were passing Derry Community House and the library was just ahead, a stone oblong comfortably shaded by elms a century old and as yet untouched by the Dutch Elm disease that would later plague and thin them.

The great elms that used to arch over the wide street had fallen victim to Dutch elm disease decades ago, and the trees planted since seemed smaller, stunted, irregular, and ignoble in comparison.

The indigo clouds had rolled away, leaving the softest pale blue sky above the acid green wood which had only a few sad grey streaks where the odd tree had died of Dutch elm disease.

Without fungi there would be no potato blights, Dutch elm disease, jock itch, or athlete’.

He sat in the shade of an elm that was in the last stages of rampant Dutch elm disease, his bottom resting against the frayed straps of a Sears, Roebuck mail-order lawn chair that was in the last stages of useful service.

Twenty buildings, mostly redbrick, sprawled along the west bank of the river under cover of six hundred oaks and a thousand maples, the maples replacing the elms that had dominated the campus before Dutch elm disease.

Instead of a chestnut blight or Dutch elm disease or dogwood anthracnose, what if there was just a tree blight--something indiscriminate and unstoppable that swept through whole forests?

As part of the control program for Dutch elm disease, the CSIRO has used a synthetic version of this pheromone to monitor numbers of the beetles.

An elm tree had once stood in the patch of front yard, but had died years back of Dutch elm disease.

Instead of a chestnut blight or Dutch elm disease or dogwood anthracnose, what if there was just a tree blight—.

The house stood on the brow of the hill, partially shielded from her by several huge Dutch elm trees, and it was sprawling, immense.

Meanwhile, he brought sketching materials down to the front porch stoop and made ready to draw a realistic view of an elderly Dutch Elm at the corner of the drive.