Elms returning to city's streets; Planting program seeks to recreate shaded grace of old Saratoga.(Capital Region)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | May 9, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff Writer

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Towering American elms once lined Broadway and Union Avenue, shading the city's major boulevards and giving the city that postcard look that dominated small-town America.

But Dutch elm disease wiped away that scene as elm after elm succumbed, leaving just a few in Congress Park, on Broadway and around downtown. The trees were among the 100 million elms killed by the disease, according to the Elm Research Institute in Keene, N.H.

The city is planting its way back. For the past 10 years, the ...

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