What is so bad about holly??? It's a big pretty tree with cute red berries. Well, myabe not if the berries are poisonous.

Lise, it's not an American Elm, it's http://tinyurl.com/kcwk5 a Winged Elm. But you _can_ get disease-resistant American Elms, now, and Chestnuts also. I remember the elms from my childhood, but never saw a chestnut. They were magnificent, though.