Butternut (Juglans cinerea) decline question.

[Monique Reed]

My tongue-in-cheek Gardener's Dictionary by Beard says that trees
really enjoy tree paint--the loss of a limb is made up for by the
delight of seeing the pruning perpetrator covered in spilled black goo
by the time the job is done...

Monique Reed

Starbuck wrote:
> 
> I'm dubious also.  My source is Pirone, "Diseases and Pests of Ornamental
> Plants", who I will acknowledge is much more informed on such matters than
> myself.  While painting "wounds" was once an overly touted cure-all that
> (thankfully) has pretty much been refuted...categorically denying that wound
> painting can have
> any value whatsoever seems to be to be an over-reaction in the opposite
> direction.