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- From: jhb@calmasd.prime.com (Jim Bishop)
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: The Ailanthus Tree
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.213542.982@calmasd.prime.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 05:35:42 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.080559.715@ab.wvnet.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov20.080559.715@ab.wvnet.edu>,
- del_col@ab.wvnet.edu writes:
- > Ailanthus altissima (AKA Tree of Heaven) is a fast growing, weedy tree that
- > was brought to the U.S. in the 19th century by a people who thought that
- > the U.S. could develop a native silk industry based on the Ailanthus moth and
- > the ailanthus tree....
-
- The county dumps mulch in the barren parts of the junior high property
- at the end of my street. A lot of it is barren because the kids
- pulled out most of the sprinkler system. The mulch smells mostly of
- eucs and can get pretty hot before they spread it out. Anyway trees
- are sprouting in parts of the mulch and I think they may be ailanthus.
- Is this tree so awful that I should I pull them out before they get
- too well established? Can it even survive on 9 inches or so of rain a
- year?
-
- Jim
-