Stricken RI tree gets new diagnosis

It turns out an elm tree planted more than a century ago on the grounds of the John Brown House in Providence isn't stricken with Dutch Elm disease after all.

[Richard Wright]

How rare are these trees that they are being diagnosed with diseases such as dutch elm disease? In Minnesota they had a big riot because some builders wanted to bulldoze an old town tree because it was diseased. http://shadywoodtreeexperts.com/11278/11341.h...