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10 — THE BRUSSELS POST, JULY 12, 1978
Tree tragedies more common
All too often, mature trees on
shady city streets, or trees that
may have been carefully pre-
served by a developer, suddenly
begin to die back. Sometimes
soon after installation of a back-
yard pool a carefully nurtured
privacy hedge succumbs to the
same malady.
Such tragedies are becoming
more common, says. Prof. C.B.
Kelly, department of environ-
mental biology, University of
Guelph, as people impose their
''civilization" on the trees'
natural habitat. Few native of
cultivated trees can withstand
harsh city conditions such as air
pollution, lowered water tables,
and competition from sewer
pipes, sidewalks, roads, drive-
ways, and houses.
Every spring city dwellers
become alarmed because of die-
back in the tops of tall, mature,
and seemingly healthy trees. This
die-back is how the tree shows the
effect of damaged root systems
that can no longer support so
much living tissue above ground,
The Green. Carpet's
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for results
.explains Prof. Kelly, He
describes vividly how the tree
loses its battle with people,
"First, you dig the hole for the.
house foundation, cutting away a
good chunk of .the tree's root
system. Then you decide to
change the grade on your lot. You
scrape away the surface dirt in
one place, damaging the surface
roots where the tree does most of
its feeding and you dump heavy
soil in other places, smothering
the root system which is too far
under the ground .to get enough
water - and air.
"Then you decide to pave a
driveway. The concrete drains
away the rain which would have
trickled. down to the roots. The
tree becomes dry and parched.
In winter, the ground under the
concrete* freezes unusally deeply
and in summer it gets hot enough
to cook the roots. Throughout the
year, the concrete prevents ox-
ygen from reaching the roots.
Installation of storm sewers in the
subdivison lowers the water table
throughout the area ; thus reducing
the tree's -supply of water even
further."
A swimming 0601 could very
well cause the other extreme,
drowning the very trees that help
create the backyard Shangri-la,
he adds.
Die-back represents physical
'damage to the tree, but it can be
aggravated by fungal diseases
such as verticillium wilt which
attacks some trees, flowers, and a
number of vergetables and fruits.
The fungus can be deadly to trees
that have suffered the Shock of
Old car meet
The Maitland Valley Region of
the Historical Automobile Society
of Canada held, a joint meet with
Central Region at the home of
Roy Berfeltz of Gowanstown on
Sunday afternoon. A tour of
Listowel followed by a
smorgasbord ,Supper was enjoyed
by the over 70 attending-,
root damage or transplanting,
"The best defence for verticillium
wilt," suggests the University of
Guelph expert, "is to keep the
tree he itthy and vigorously
growing. Water it during dry
spells and fertilize it in the spring
if its growth is stow."
City home owners should
choose tree varieties with known
resistance to city conditions, The
Norway maple, for example,
grows rapidly, can withstand
transplanting shock, and does
well in city conditions. The native
red maple an dthe silver maple,
on the other hand, need more
moisture than the city usually
affords and do poorly. Sugar
maples often die back in cities
because they cannot tolerate the
city conditions.
To find suitable trees, Prof.
Kelly suggests studying
neighbors' gardens and selecting
the species that thrive. Also, he
emphasizes the importance of
choosing trees that arc in scale
with small city lots. Sycamores,
DANA MERLE BEAN
-son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Bean, of R. R 1 , Auburn,
graduated from the University of
Guelph, June 2, with a Bachelor
of Science Degree in Agriculture.
Dana is a graduate of Goderich
District Collegiate Institute.
American elms, and basswood
trees, for example, are more
suited to parks than home
gardens, while moderately sized
mountain ash and little leaf linden
are a better size for city gardens.
Prof. Kelly sings the praises of
a "perfect" city tree — the tree of
heaven, or ailanthus. This ag-
gressive, vigorous, weedy, tree
grows in impoverished soil, rub-
ble, sidewalk crags, window
wells, alleys, courtyard, and all
kinds of "disreputalbe" places in
,Toronto. It literally thrives on
dust, fumes, and dirty air. The
species does not enjoy much
social status, but the University of
Guelph botanist feels we should
take notice of its yellow and
crimson fruits and large com-
pound leaves before passing over
it in favor of a more fragile
species.
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