This by way of an 'every cloud has a silver lining' aside to the good news regarding resistant elms. Beside the Salmon Weir Bridge in Galway city an enterprising sculptor turned one of the stumps left after the sad felling of a line of elm along the river bank into a leaping salmon. The city fathers were so surprised they commissioned a series of additional works using the remaining stumps. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE WOODYPLANTS