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[Sam Franc <franc@oregonfast.net>]

Lucky Pittman wrote:

> At 03:23 AM 8/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >  I am of the more organic persuasion, and the idea of Round-Up does 
> > indeed make me cringe, or worse. If I ever did concider using 
> > round-up, the idea of injecting it directly into the problem plant is 
> > the best one I have heard. 
>
>
> While I'm not strictly organic, I don't  use chemical herbicides 
> willy-nilly.  But, faced with an Ailanthus - or, in my case, thorny 
> honeylocust, black locust(in undesirable locations), sweetgum(in any 
> location), or the ubiquitous hackberry, I have no reservations about 
> using Brush-B-Gon or Tordon as a stump treatment to ensure those 
> dastardly things don't re-sprout.   Compared to those two, Roundup is 
> pretty innocuous, though I still wonder how effective it is, in 
> comparison, when used as a stump treatment.
> I even have a little pint can of Agent Orange that I'm holding back in 
> reserve for any Ailanthus or Liquidambar that raise their ugly heads 
> around here.
>
> Lucky

There must be 2 different Liquidambers as it is no problem around here.
It makes a nice front lawn tree.
Very colorful in the fall, like a maple.
In fact the leaves look very like maple leaves.
Sam