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)
“Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.... Think it over ... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid ... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)