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[dwoodard@becon.org]

Sherwin, the botanical name of the trees known as eastern white cedar is
Thuja occidentalis. Eastern red cedar is Juniperus virginiana.

Are you saying that Thuja occidentalis hosts cedar apple rust?

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

[snip]

Sherwin Dubren wrote:
>     The easiest way to cure this problem is to get rid of any Juniper
> trees in the immediate
>     area.  Trees that are misnamed as White Cedar are really Junipers
> and I know from my
>     own experience that they were causing the same problem for me.
>
>                                              Sherwin Dubren