14 JANUARY 1928, Page 13

So far, so good ; but in doing this they

have brought the huge platform of the roots at right-angles to the road ; and those who know anything of the weight and solidity of the base of an elm with its roots will understand what a major operation will be needed to get rid of this partial obstruction. Literally thousands of elms are down and the boughs inextricably tangled with the wreckage of telegraph and telephone wires. It is surprising that the elm is permitted as a roadside tree. She "will wait ten years to drop a limb on you," and being without any sort of tap-root topples over like a Noah's Ark figure. The roadside is not her place.