A diseased Japanese cherry tree is cut down in Banbury’s Peoples Park. – Vintage Photograph

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Cherwell District Council workmen were forced to cut down a 50-year-old Japanese cherry tree in Banbury’s Peoples Park due to a bacterial disease that is peculiar to cherry trees. The council’s parks superintendent Mr David Harrison said that the disease affected the blossom and worked its way back into the tree, and that any felled trees would be replaced, though it takes ten years for them to fill out and 30 to reach maturity.Cherwell District Council workmen were forced to cut down a 50-year-old Japanese cherry tree in Banbury’s Peoples Park due to a bacterial disease that is peculiar to cherry trees. The council’s parks superintendent Mr David Harrison said that the disease affected the blossom and worked its way back into the tree, and that any felled trees would be replaced, though it takes ten years for them to fill out and 30 to reach maturity.

Dimensions: 15.8 x 15.8 cm

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Blight ravages park’s trees 8 AUG 1902 Avenue at risk… a AN AVENUE of 50-year-old trees at Banbury is under threat. One of the badly diseased Japanese cherry trees in the Peoples Park was felled by Cherwell District Council workmen. Others are showing signs of the workman sorts the chopped down cherry tree into logs bacterial disease which is peculiar to cherry trees. Replace The council’s parks superintendent, Mr David Harrison, said that the disease affects the blossom, and then works its way back into the tree. “It’s a great shame. Cherry Valk is a feature of the park. But there is no treatment,” he said. Any felled trees will be replaced, but it takes ten years for them to fill out, and 30 to reach maturity. Forrestry