Trees add not only beauty but value to our property. The value of a mature elm for insurance purposes is US$2,500 (C$3,600). 
 

The 7,700,000 elm trees in urban centres in North America have a combined value of over US$19 billion
 

Dutch elm disease got its name because it was discovered by scientists in Holland in 1917.
 

The seven Dutch scientists who first identified Dutch elm disease were all women.

Dutch elm disease hit England in the 1960’s and within 20 years had killed 17 million of the country’s 23 million elm trees.

A second out-break of Dutch elm disease in 1945, destroyed second-generation elms in Eastern Canada and the United States. The elm population dropped from 77 million to 34 million by 1976.
  

Fully mature elm trees can live as long as 300 years.   

The cooling effect of one urban elm tree is equivalent to five air conditioning units.   

North American settlers named the elm “the lady of the forest”.   

Elm trees first appeared in the Miocene period, about 40 million years ago.   

The American Elm grows to over 115 feet tall and can have a diameter in excess of ten feet.   

The Iroquois used elm bark to make canoes, rope and utensils   

The film “Nightmare on Elm Street” has absolutely nothing to do with elm trees