
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 20, 1990                   TAG: 9006200132
SECTION: B-2 VIRGINIA                    PAGE:    EDITION: METRO 
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ROANOKE PLANS TO REMOVE 17 DAMAGED TREES

The London Plane trees around the Roanoke Municipal Building complex will be removed because they suffered severe winter freeze damage at a nursery before they were planted this spring.

When the 17 trees were planted, city officials said, there was no visible sign they had been damaged in a nursery in White Sulfur Springs, W.Va., before they were brought to Roanoke.

Because of the trees' slow growth since they were planted, city officials suspected there was a problem.

The nursery that provided the trees discovered the freeze damage during a recent inspection. The trees were damaged because of extremely low and rapidly fluctuating temperatures at the nursery, officials said.

Seventeen new trees will be planted this fall at no additional cost to the city.

by CNB