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@RussCheshire 🧵 Exactly that. We lost a lot of #hedgerows to industrial agriculture or theories that #alley trees were dangerous in case of accidents (in reality, alleys slow down).
But also because of an invasive fungal disease, imported by American soldiers in 1944. Their wooden munition boxes were infected and the native #plane trees couldn't resist that #fungus: daysontheclaise.blogspot.com/2
We now have resistant hybrids but old trees are dying.
Apropos Napoleon's #alleys,

daysontheclaise.blogspot.comThe Plight of the Plane TreesPlane trees were widely used in France in the early and mid-19th century, first planted along roadsides on the orders Napoleon to provide s...