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Site Addresses

Botanic Garden “Elm”
National Mall in Union Square, across from Maryland Avenue SW from the United States Botanic Garden, between the Capitol Reflecting Pool and Third Street NW.
Washington D.C. 20024

Jefferson American Elm
National Mall
Across Jefferson Drive from the Freer Gallery of Art at 12th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20024

Online Resources

SelecTree: A Tree Selection Guide. The Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute.

Silvics of North America. United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Agriculture Handbook.

Ulmus Americana: American Elm.” By Edward F. Gilman and Dennis G. Watson. University of Florida: Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, November 1993.

 

 

Print Resources

“A Dutch Elm Disease Resistant Triploid Elm,” Canadian Journal of Forest Research Vol. 24 No. 4 1994. By James L. Sherald, et al.

“Disease-resistant American Elm to Return to the National Mall,” NPS Natural Resource Year in Review 2005. By James L. Sherald.

Knowing Your Trees. By G. H. Collingwood and Warren D. Brush. Edited by Devereux Butcher. The American Forestry Association, 1964.

National Mall and Memorial Parks: Union Square, National Park Service Cultural Landscape Inventory. By Kay Fanning. National Park Service, Draft of March 2006.

educational partners
Garden DesignGeorge Eastman House
Additional Sponsors

John A. Brooks, Inc. • The Brown Foundation • Charles Butt • The City of Charleston • Barb & George Cochran • Topher Delaney• Jungle Gardens, Inc. • Magnolia Plantation & Gardens • Marc Dutton Irrigation, Inc. • Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation • L. Cary Saurage II Fund • Jeff & Patsy Tarr • Seibert & Rice