Pests and Diseases
A specimen at the Ryston Hall, Norfolk, arboretum, obtained from the Späth nursery in Berlin, was killed by the earlier strain of Dutch elm disease prevalent in the 1930s.
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Famous quotes containing the words pests and/or diseases:
“How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.”
—Lorenz Hart (1895–1943)
“But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)