Dutch elm disease not from holland!!

[michael larder]

Interesting. The name suggests it comes from holland and every tree man ive spoke to says it came from holland in the 70's and 80's but ive just found out that it was first recorded in france in 1918 and that it reached the UK from Canada in the early 60's. Its only called Dutch elm disease because the Dutch were the ones that did research on it to find out what it is. You learn something new every day.

[Graham]

Interesting. The name suggests it comes from holland and every tree man ive spoke to says it came from holland in the 70's and 80's but ive just found out that it was first recorded in france in 1918 and that it reached the UK from Canada in the early 60's. Its only called Dutch elm disease because the Dutch were the ones that did research on it to find out what it is. You learn something new every day.

 

It was first noted in the UK in the early 1900s and it killed many elms up to the 1940s. It was noticed in France during war time and deaths were blamed on nerve gas. It then disappeared only to reappear in the 60s (a different strain of fungus). My avatar shows an English elm. I believe the only large survivor in Staffs at about 90' of a once common sight.

[michael larder]

It was first noted in the UK in the early 1900s and it killed many elms up to the 1940s. It was noticed in France during war time and deaths were blamed on nerve gas. It then disappeared only to reappear in the 60s (a different strain of fungus). My avatar shows an English elm. I believe the only large survivor in Staffs at about 90' of a once common sight.

Ah So it comes from the UK then. And there is us blaming it on Holland haha

[Stubby]

It was first noted in the UK in the early 1900s and it killed many elms up to the 1940s. It was noticed in France during war time and deaths were blamed on nerve gas. It then disappeared only to reappear in the 60s (a different strain of fungus). My avatar shows an English elm. I believe the only large survivor in Staffs at about 90' of a once common sight.

 

When I was a little lad there was an Elm just like the one in your avatar at the bottom of the garden just in the field . That is 60 odd years ago . Sad or what ?

[Graham]

When I was a little lad there was an Elm just like the one in your avatar at the bottom of the garden just in the field . That is 60 odd years ago . Sad or what ?

 

We had one in the paddock hedge. Huge English elm. To think they were the commonest tree in the countryside epitomised in the paintings of Constable et al. It's hard to visualise now what the hedgerows looked like just forty years ago. Rows of majestic English elm. Sad? Yes. We had to fell 100s in the day. All burnt on site. The largest one we did was 108" with a DBH around 6".

[treequip]

Ah So it comes from the UK then. And there is ME blaming it on Holland haha

 

Fixed that for you. Just because you didn't know that doesn't mean the rest of us didn't

[michael larder]

Fixed that for you. Just because you didn't know that doesn't mean the rest of us didn't

I meant "us" as in me and the guys i work with

[Daniël Bos]

As a Dutchman, can I follow this "revelation" by informing you there is no country called Holland...

There is the Netherlands, a country of twelve provinces of which just two are called (north and South) Holland.

[michael larder]

As a Dutchman, can I follow this "revelation" by informing you there is no country called Holland...

There is the Netherlands, a country of twelve provinces of which just two are called (north and South) Holland.

Something else i didn't know.

[Perkins]

I thought it was called Dutch Elm disease because it first affected the dutch elm tree, Ulmus x hollandica