Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-10
STATELY ELMS GOING
A Few of Those Big Ones on ibe
 Green Are Dead.

A prediction made some time ago about the trees on the green is being realized for one tree is gone, dead as door nail. This tree stands at the southeast corner of the green. near, the hack stand, and, it is said, that while 1t could not survive much long, CT anyway, the. mass of electric wires on the pole nearby had good deal to do with killing it. It stands on the corner. black, bare and lifeless.
 About five years ago man who claimed to know all about trees was given a job to trim those on the green. While he was doing the work a forester of some note through the state came along and seeing how the other man was trimming the trees said it was all wrong and that he had put the first nail in their life. In stead of trimming them on top, this man worked ,on the lowest limbs. What that man left undone, the man who was given the job a year or two ago finished, and walk through the green will show anyone that most all the trees are like umbrellas, bare stems and foliage on top.
 Superintendent Walker got down to business in earnest this afternoon and If any of the pests escape 1t will not be his fault. Aided Dy Chief Snagg of the fire department and a number of other men the trunks or the trees and the ground nearby where the pupae are tucked away so- lutions are being used .ha: destroys them very quickly. MT Walker $ preparation is composed of kerosene, water and whale oil soap, all made into a suds with the soap. It is not dangerous to human beings so that nobody need be afraid to handle It. MT Walker says it wouldn't harm you if you should wash your face in it, but it isn't necessary to do that. Saturate the trunks of the trees with it and throw it on the foreign bodies on the ground.
 It is not the intention of the city to continue the work on private prop erty, but Mir Walker will give any body who calls such information as he possesses as to the best method of saving their trees. The ,elms on the Merriman lawn across the way are in ! need of immediate attention. They are honeycombed with beetles and unless cared for there will not be 8 leaf on them after week or ten days Mrs Merriman said to-day that she if interested in the trees on her owr property and also those on the greer and will do all in her power to save them. She set man to work to-day spraying the trunks and after few hours, they will be as secure as it k possible to make them at this stage of the proceeding.
 The elm leaf beetle was introduced into this country about seventy yeari ago from Europe, where it had Ions been, known in Italy, France, Ger many and Austria as the deadly enc my of the elm tree. Their first poin of attack was at Baltimore, Md, wher, they did vast amount of damage il 1858 and 1899. Since that time il | the coast towns of Connecticut man. fine old elms. including some histori, trees were killed by their depreda tions. Stamford, Norwalk, Bridge port, Stratford, Milford and New Ha ven especially lost many noble trees It is believed that the elms on tn, green in Waterbury and other place about town are the finest in the stat and about the last to be attacked b! this wandering horde of grubs. Witt the knowledge now available as t the best method of dealing success fully with them we ought to be abl to conquer them and save the trees What would Waterbury look like 1 deprived of it's beautiful elm trees
 Everybody can do something to hell drive out these pests. The super intendent of parks will protect tn trees in the parks but this is no sufficient. If private individuals d
 not inteerst themselves the beetle will soon be in the ascendancy tha will mean that the elms are doomed
 A solution prepared by John H Leddy of Sunnyside avenue was trie
 on some of the trees to-day. It doe the work effectively, but it is posi-
 lively dangerous and should be han died with great care.