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« Last post by Ben Framed on Today at 01:53:22 am »Years back, I had a small commercial property in downtown Meridian, Ms. that had an over 4 foot diameter elm on it. I didn't know what it was and being that size, "elm" never even entered my mind. I took a few leaves to the county agent and he wasn't sure, so he went over there with me. It completely blew his mind when he saw it and he geeked out. It was the largest he had ever seen and he asked permission to show it to people. I told him no problem and over several years he showed it to a lot of people. According to him, it was easily over 200 years old at the time (1990 maybe).
I told him that if it was so "valuable", he was welcome to it and to pick it up anytime he wanted.
I didn't want the liability of it being on my property and spreading over the 2 story building next door. I finally sold the property cheap and the tree was one of the reasons. Someone cut it down around 2006 or so. It was still healthy then.
Animal, that is the type of elm trees, (large), that bordered my school when I was small. During the Fall we children, at recess, would go out and play leaf catch as the leaves would fall from the trees. . The elm trees were a favorite for the game. Each time a gust of *Fall wind* would arrive, a vast amount of leaves would turn loose from their branches and we would scramble to catch as many as we could before they would touch the ground, thus adding up our points of catches., such simple activities but cherished memories just the same.
