Make like a tree and leave with an elm won at the fair

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SPECIAL TO THE VINDICATOR John Schinker. left, and Larry Tooker, members of the American Elm Tree Committee of the Men’s Garden Club of Youngstown, show some of the trees the club will give away in daily drawings at the Canfield Fair. In addition to seedlings, the club also will give away an 8-foot Prairie Expedition American Elm, the first of the new cultivar to become available in the Mahoning Valley.

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CANFIELD

The Men’s Garden Club of Youngstown will give away elm trees at the Canfield Fair.

At the club’s booth in the Floral Building, fairgoers can register for drawings to win an elm seedling. One will be given away each day of the fair, Aug. 28 through Labor Day. At the fair’s end, the club will give away an 8-foot Prairie Expedition Elm cloned in Fargo, N.D.

The American Elm, once one of the most popular trees in America’s landscape, was decimated in the 1960s by Dutch elm disease. Disease-resistant varieties are available today.

Aptly, just outside the Floral Building grows one of the largest American elms in the Valley.

Each year the club donates American elms to Valley communities to showcase new elms and inspire residents to include elms in their landscapes.

The club also will sell elm seedlings at its annual mum sale Sept. 14 at Fellows Riverside Gardens, 123 McKinley Ave., Youngstown.

For information contact Lynn Hoffmann at lyhoffmann@gmail.com or 330-774-1888.